Name not reported
An unnamed man was in the custody of a constable and two deputies in Georgia County, Ohio, and was being brought back under their charge when, according to a Cleveland news dispatch carried by the Daily Kennebec Journal on November 22, 1877, a party of masked men set upon the officers near Pierce roads. The dispatch says the men bound the officers, took the man and hanged him from a tree. The officers are said to have been overpowered. The death is dated November 20, 1877, the day the Cleveland dispatch describes.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cleveland news dispatch, unattributed, reports that masked men overpowered a constable and two deputies while the man was being returned in their custody and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Cleveland news dispatch (unattributed) (reporters).