Name not reported
According to a New York Herald account reprinted in the Daily Kennebec Journal in October 1875, a man held in an Ohio jail was taken out by a group of farmers angered by a killing in the woods and hanged. The reprinted account says he denied the crime in his last moments, and that he was later found to be innocent. The writer says the men who took part in the hanging broke the law.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). The New York Herald, as reprinted in the Daily Kennebec Journal, reports a mob of farmers took him from an Ohio jail and hanged him, and says he later proved innocent, a claim the paper's own account contradicts in part.
Reported by: New York Herald, as reprinted in the Daily Kennebec Journal (reporters).