Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name is illegible in this OCR copy of the Daily Republican was taken from the Seymour, Indiana, jail by a mob on a Thursday night in late July 1886, according to a telegram the paper reprinted. The telegram says he was lynched. The jail's keeper or officers are not named.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: reprinted telegram in the newspaper.