Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name is unclear in the surviving newspaper text was held in the jail at Wersier, Idaho. According to the Daily Republican, a mob took him from the jail and lynched him in early January 1884, a few days before the paper's report. The paper does not say how the mob got in, or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Daily Republican reported that a mob took a man, whose name is garbled in the OCR text, from the Wersier, Idaho jail and lynched him.
Reported by: Daily Republican (reporters).