Big Reddy
Big Reddy was held in the jail at Detroit, Minnesota, when, on June 24, 1886, the Hope Pioneer reported, a mob of twenty or thirty men came to the jail. They took the keys from Sheriff Pinney, who refused them and was overpowered, and removed Big Reddy from his cell while a crowd of five or six hundred gathered. The sheriff could find no deputies to resist, and the paper said the mob hanged Big Reddy from a tree about half a mile from the jail. The paper said he was already dead when he reached the tree. The paper described the sheriff as powerless to stop the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took him from the Detroit, Minnesota jail after Sheriff Pinney was overpowered, and hanged him from a tree about half a mile away.
Reported by: Sheriff Pinney of Detroit, Minnesota (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.