Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two people held in the jail at Noberly, Missouri, were taken from it by a mob and hanged on April 21, 1880, according to a brief telegram printed in the Portland Daily Press. The telegram gives no names for either person. Their deaths are recorded here as a lynching from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.