Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Des Moines despatch reprinted in the Daily National Intelligencer in July 1866, three people were taken from the jail at Newton, Iowa, by a vigilance committee and hanged in June 1866. The despatch gives no names or other details about the three people. It does not say how the committee got into the jail or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed them over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Des Moines despatch reprinted in the Daily National Intelligencer (reporters).