Died in prison
Name not reported
Two men held in the insane ward of the Jefferson City Penitentiary in Missouri were killed in the same attack, according to a January 1885 report in the Wessington Springs Herald. The report says a fellow prisoner got loose from his cot, took an iron rod and struck them. Neither man is named in the article, and no further details about them are given.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody
Reported by: Jefferson City Penitentiary (Mo.) newspaper account of the killing (reporters).