Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An 1880 Chicago Tribune letter about Southern politics reports that a person held in a jail was taken out by a mob and hanged. The letter does not name the person and gives no date or place for the death. The account is not corroborated elsewhere in the text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Chicago Tribune letter (1880) (reporters).