Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unnamed man held in an Indiana jail was taken out of the jail by a mob of citizens and hanged, according to a telegraph dispatch datelined Indianapolis on May 29, 1863, published in the Worcester Daily Spy the next day.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telegraph dispatch reports a mob took a man from an Indiana jail and hanged him; the dispatch does not say whether jail officers resisted.
Reported by: telegraph dispatch datelined Indianapolis (reporters).