One of 2 people whose names were not reported
Two Black men held at the Carrollton prison were taken from the jail on the night of October 23, 1868, and shot by a number of leading citizens, according to a Chicago dispatch printed in the Idaho Semi-Weekly World on October 31, 1868. Neither man is named, and nothing is recorded about who they were, their lives, or their families. The dispatch describes a group of citizens who took the men from the jail and shot them, without saying whether jailers resisted or handed them over. The killing was carried out by a crowd outside any legal process, and the men were denied the trial and protection that their custody was meant to provide.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news report of a Chicago dispatch says a mob took the man from the Carrollton prison and shot him.
Reported by: news report of a Chicago dispatch (reporters).