Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to The Kimball Graphic, a man held in the Urbana, Ohio jail was killed by a mob in March 1904, during a riot that the paper linked to a local disturbance. The paper reported that the mob besieged the jail and, within about an hour, dragged him from it and hanged him. A militia company that had been sent to the jail marched back to its train and left town without stopping the mob, according to the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob besieged the Urbana jail, dragged a prisoner out and hanged him, and a militia company sent to the jail marched away without stopping them.
Reported by: news reports.