Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name the sources do not give, was held in a local calaboose near Rushsylvania, Ohio, in April 1894. According to a Cleveland dispatch printed in the Dakota Farmers' Leader, a mob of about 1,500 men refused to let the sheriff from Bellefontaine take custody of him, and a militia company was withdrawn after talks with the mob's leaders. The mob broke into the building, took him out, put a rope around his neck and hanged him from a tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Cleveland, Ohio, special dispatch as printed in the Dakota Farmers' Leader (reporters).