Deaths in CustodyWork in progressIn progress
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Floyd County, Indiana

The person is not named in the source. A brief anniversary item in the Brattleboro Daily Reformer, published December 12, 1921, says they were one of four men held in the jail at New Albany, Indiana, who were taken out by a mob and killed. The item describes the killing as a lynching from the jail, but gives no names, year, or account of how the mob reached the men.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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