Died in jail or a lockup
Walter Johnson
Walter Johnson was being held in the jail at Hamilton, Montana, according to an October 1903 report. The report says about seventy-five masked and armed men stormed the jail and overpowered the jailer. The men took Johnson from the building and hanged him from an electric light pole.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about seventy-five masked, armed men overpowered the jailer, took Walter Johnson from the Hamilton, Montana jail and hanged him from an electric light pole.
Reported by: news reports.