Charles Stevens (alias “Omaha Charley”)
Charles Stevens was being held in the jail at Maryville, Missouri. Early on Tuesday, December 16, 1884, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a railway bridge. The sheriff and his deputies fought the lynchers, and one member of the mob was dangerously wounded in the struggle. The sheriff's office resisted the mob's attempt to take him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Charles Stevens from the Maryville, Missouri jail and hanged him from a railway bridge, with the sheriff and deputies skirmishing with the mob.
Reported by: Maryville jail sheriff's office, as reported in the historical newspaper account (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.