Died in custody
Name not reported
Writing in The National Tribune in 1896, a former prisoner recalled that after a group of prisoners attempted to escape at Salisbury, four men were drawn by marked tickets as hostages. According to the writer, one of them, whose name the letter does not give, was taken out with another hostage and shot by guards shortly after the drawing. The writer says the men who drew the marked tickets bade their comrades farewell with smiling faces, and that the rest of the prisoners were marched on.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by staff. A former prisoner writing in The National Tribune says guards shot him after he was drawn as a hostage.
Reported by: former prisoner writing in The National Tribune (witnesses).