Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man was held at the police station in Danville, Illinois, in July 1903. According to the Montgomery Advertiser's account, a mob broke into the station, seized him from custody and hanged him from a telephone pole. The paper reported that the officers could not resist the overwhelming numbers of the crowd. The account gives no name or age for him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.