Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Seminole man was taken from the jail at Red Fork, in Indian Territory, and lynched by a group of Indians, according to a special dispatch printed in the Dodge City Times on June 10, 1886. He was the second of two Seminole men arrested some days earlier. The dispatch gives no name for him or for the other man. The jail's holding of him and the mob's entry are the only details the account offers.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch reports that a group of Indians took a Seminole man from a jail at Red Fork, Indian Territory, and lynched him.
Reported by: special dispatch (newspaper report) (reporters).