Died in jail or a lockup
William Bates
William Bales, also reported as William Bates, was held in the county jail at Kenton, Ohio. In the early hours of April 10, 1891, a mob of about fifty to one hundred men entered the jail, according to a Richmond Dispatch correspondent's report, and overpowered the sheriff. They searched until they found the keys, opened his cell, and took him across the road, where they hanged him from a maple tree. The Richmond Dispatch said the sheriff was overpowered and the keys were found only after a search, while the Oxford Eagle gave the size of the mob as about fifty men.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Evening Dispatch correspondent's report from Kenton, O. (reporters).