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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died August 16, 1895 · Missouri

A man held by the sheriff near Fulton, Missouri, was taken from the sheriff by a mob and lynched, according to an August 1895 account in the Monmouth Inquirer. The account is badly garbled, and his name is not legible in the surviving text. The date of the death is recorded as August 16, 1895, and the paper's report was published six days later.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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