Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A young man held in a jail was taken from it by a mob on Saturday, June 7, 1884, and hanged, according to a short wire report datelined Lynchburg and printed in the Helena Weekly Herald on June 19. The dispatch refers to him only as a boy. The jail was the place where he was held when citizens came for him and killed him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Lynchburg dispatch (reporters).