Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A young Black man was in the custody of a jail on Saturday, June 7, 1884, when a crowd of citizens took him from it and hanged him. A short wire report in The Indianapolis Journal, published June 12, 1884, described the killing. The jail that had held him was the place from which the crowd took him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.