Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On January 14, 1894, a lynching party took a man from a jail in Kansas and hanged him from the stringers of a railroad bridge, according to the Orleans County Monitor. He was one of three men the mob took from the jail and killed that night. The paper published its account on January 22, 1894.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Orleans County Monitor reports a lynching party took the man from a Kansas jail and hanged him from a railroad bridge.
Reported by: Orleans County Monitor (reporters).