Bell

A telegram from Nebraska City, printed in the New-York Tribune on January 18, 1887, said that a mob took a man named Bell from a jail there and lynched him at 10 o'clock on the morning of January 17. The same telegram said a man named Hoffman was lynched with him at the same time. Bell was held in the jail when the mob took him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telegram from Nebraska City reported that a mob took Bell from a jail and lynched him.

Reported by: telegram from Nebraska City, reported in an Atchison, Kansas dispatch (reporters).

Source

• New-York Tribune, January 18, 1887, page 2 New-York Tribune, January 18, 1887