Brenden
Brenden was held in the city jail when a group of fifteen to twenty men took him from his cell on Saturday evening, January 15, 1859, according to the New Orleans Daily Crescent. The jailer was absent, and the keys were taken from a room above the cells, where women present said they had been told no one would be hurt. His body was found on Sunday, hanging by the neck from a tree a few miles north of the city. The paper reported that the hanging was carried out by a mob, and the record classifies his death as homicide.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A group of fifteen to twenty men took Brenden from the city jail and hanged him from a tree, per the New Orleans Daily Crescent.
Reported by: New Orleans Daily Crescent (reporters).