Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a Utah jail was taken from the building during the night by masked men and hanged, according to a telegraphic item in the Jasper Weekly Courier, published in October 1880. The newspaper text is too badly garbled to make out his name or the exact town. The item does not say whether the jail's officers resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Jasper Weekly Courier's garbled telegraphic item says masked men took a man from a Utah jail at night and hanged him.
Reported by: The Jasper Weekly Courier (reporters).