Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two men held in a Minnesota jail were taken out by a mob and hanged in September 1896, according to a brief in the Montpelier Examiner. The brief links the lynching to anger among a sheriff's friends over the outcome of a court case involving one of the men. Both men were being held at the jail when the mob took them and hanged them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Montpelier Examiner brief says a mob hanged the man after he was taken from a Minnesota jail.
Reported by: Montpelier Examiner (reporters).