Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Daily News dispatch from Idaho, printed in the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer on January 11, 1884, a masked mob broke into the jail and took a man from his cell while he was held there. The dispatch says the mob shot and beat him, then dragged him about half a mile and hanged him from a windlass used by butchers. The dispatch is the only account given here, and it is not dated more precisely than its January 10 filing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Daily News special dispatch from Idaho says a masked mob took the man from his jail cell, shot and beat him, and hanged him from a butchers' windlass.
Reported by: Daily News special dispatch (Chicago) (reporters).