Name not reported

In September 1897, one of five people held in the jail at Yerseilles, Indiana, was taken out by a masked crowd that a Pleasantville Weekly Press editorial put at about four hundred. According to the editorial, the crowd hanged the person from nearby trees. The editorial does not give the person's name. The paper called the killing unlawful, while also defending it.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Pleasantville Weekly Press editorial says a masked crowd of about four hundred took the prisoner from the Yerseilles, Indiana jail and hanged him from trees.

Reported by: Pleasantville Weekly Press editorial (reporters).

Source

• Pleasantville Weekly Press, September 22, 1897, page 2 Pleasantville Weekly Press, September 22, 1897