Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three young men from the Seymour area were being held in the Seymour jail. At daylight a mob broke into the jail and took the three men about a mile and a half west of town. The mob hanged them from a tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob stormed the Seymour jail at daylight, took three young men held there about a mile and a half west of town and hanged them from a tree.
Reported by: news reports.