Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to the Orleans County Monitor, a man held in a Kansas jail was taken from it on January 14, 1894, by a lynching party. The paper reported that the mob hanged him from the stringers of a railroad bridge. He was one of three men the party took from the jail that day.
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).