Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a short news item reprinted in the Vermont Farmer on January 28, 1876, a mob took a man from the jail in West Virginia and hanged him on or about January 23, 1876. The item says a woman held in the same jail was brought back inside because no one in the crowd would put the noose around her neck. The man is not named in the item, and the town is not legible in the scanned text. The account is a single brief reprint, and the item does not say how the jail's staff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A short reprinted news item says a mob took a man from a West Virginia jail and hanged him.
Reported by: unnamed news item reprinted in the Vermont Farmer (reporters).