Died in jail or a lockup
Dennis Hagarty
Dennis Hagarty was held in a jail in Colorado in July 1883. Newspaper reports of the time say a group of citizens broke into the jail, took him out and hanged him. The accounts describe the killing as carried out by citizens, and they do not give further details about how he was held before it. Dennis Hagarty was a man, and his death at the hands of the crowd is the central fact the surviving reports record.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch reports that citizens took Dennis Hagarty from the Colorado jail and hanged him.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch.