Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On March 16, 1879, a mob took a man from the jail at Newport, according to a Cincinnati newspaper dispatch printed in the Daily Kennebec Journal. The dispatch says the mob led him through a snowstorm and hanged him from a tree. He was held at the jail when the mob took him, and the account of his death is the only record of it that survives in this text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati newspaper dispatch reports that a mob took him from the jail at Newport and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Cincinnati newspaper dispatch (reporters).