Charles Pratt
Charles Phatt was held in the jail at Blair, Nebraska, when a mob took him from custody and killed him in August 1890. The Madison Daily Leader reported that armed, masked men came to the jail shortly before midnight and hanged him from a tree about a mile outside town. According to that account, the sheriff ordered his guards to stand firm, but the guards did not resist and the sheriff's keys were taken from him. The same paper said the lynching was led by a son of the man whose death had prompted the crowd. Accounts differ on the date, with reports giving August 13, 15 and 16, 1890.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (neglect alleged). A mob took Charles Phatt from the Blair, Nebraska jail and hanged him; a Madison Daily Leader account says the sheriff ordered guards to stand firm, the guards refused to resist, and the sheriff's keys were taken from him.
Reported by: Madison Daily Leader (reporters).