Died in jail or a lockup
W. D. Brooks
W. D. Brooks was one of three men held in the Sumner County, Kansas, jail after a sheriff's posse made arrests. According to the Topeka Record, as reprinted in the Chicago Daily Tribune on August 10, 1874, a mob took Brooks out of the jail and hanged him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Topeka (Kan.) Record (reporters).