Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man, whose name the Orleans County Monitor does not give, was taken from a Kansas jail by a lynching party on January 14, 1894, and hanged from the stringers of a railroad bridge. The Monitor reported that he was the third of three men the mob took that night. The paper does not say which jail held him or whether the sheriff or jailers resisted, gave up the keys or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Orleans County Monitor reports that a lynching party took him from a Kansas jail and hanged him from a railroad bridge.
Reported by: Orleans County Monitor (reporters).