Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On the night of September 14, 1897, a masked mob broke into the Cross Plains jail in Indiana and took five prisoners from their cells, one of whom is this person, and killed them. Testimony at a preliminary hearing in 1898, as reported by the Indianapolis Journal, said the jail guards offered no resistance and the prisoners were dragged out of the cells. The name of this person is not given in the account, and nothing else about them is recorded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Testimony at a 1898 preliminary hearing says a masked mob took the prisoners from the jail cells and the guards offered no resistance.
Reported by: witnesses at a 1898 preliminary hearing (witnesses).