Died in custody
Name not reported
Three people were hanged from a beech tree near Seymour, Indiana, by a body of citizens, according to an account by Rev. H. L. Wayland quoted in the Independent. They had been taken from a train that was bringing them to the county jail, and the crowd hanged them after taking them off it. Wayland's account places their deaths among a series of hangings from the same tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Rev. H. L. Wayland says a body of citizens hanged the person from a beech tree after taking them from a train bound for the county jail.
Reported by: Rev. H. L. Wayland, quoted in the Independent.