Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a jail was taken from it by a mob and hanged, according to a Weekly Union Times dispatch from March 1881. The dispatch says he had been caught by a sheriff's posse the night before. Other people had earlier been hanged at the same spot. His name is not legible in the surviving text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Weekly Union Times dispatch (reporters).