Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a Minnesota jail in September 1896 was one of two people taken from the jail by a masked mob and hanged from a high bridge. He was in the custody of the jail when the mob took him and killed him. The account was published in The Clarksburg Telegram on September 18, 1896. The same mob took the second man from the same jail and hanged him at the same bridge.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.