Adam Über
Adam Über was held in the jail at Genoa, Nevada, according to a San Francisco Call dispatch from Carson, Nevada, published December 8, 1897. Masked men arrived in the early hours, covered Sheriff Brokliss and Constable Gray with weapons, and took the sheriff's keys at gunpoint. The dispatch says they unlocked his cell, bound and gagged him, and marched him to a cottonwood tree in Boyd's lane, where a mob hanged him. The account says he was hauled up while kneeling in prayer and died in agony.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A San Francisco Call dispatch from Carson, Nevada says masked men took the sheriff's keys at gunpoint, unlocked his cell and hanged him from a cottonwood tree.
Reported by: San Francisco Call special dispatch from Carson, Nevada (reporters).