Name not reported

A person held in the Mount Vernon, Ohio, jail was killed in a cell in October 1878, after a mob broke into the jail, according to The Anderson Intelligencer. The paper reported that the person's throat was cut. The same mob took four other people from the jail and hanged them in the jail yard. The person's name, age and sex are not recorded in the sources.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Anderson Intelligencer reports that a mob took the person from the Mount Vernon, Ohio, jail and hanged them in the jail yard.

Reported by: The Anderson Intelligencer (reporters).

Source

• The Anderson Intelligencer, October 31, 1878, page 2 The Anderson Intelligencer, October 31, 1878