Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held in a jail within about 20 miles of Indianapolis, Indiana, and a mob of masked men took him from the jail and hanged him, sometime in the year before July 1876. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, reprinted in the Chicago Daily Tribune, wrote that he protested his innocence. That correspondent also wrote that no one had been held to account for the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, reprinted in the Tribune, says a masked mob hanged the man after taking him from a jail within 20 miles of Indianapolis.
Reported by: Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, reprinted in the Tribune (reporters).