Died in jail or a lockup
Dob Burch
Dob Burch was one of two men being taken in handcuffs by a deputy sheriff to a jail near Cheyenne, Wyoming, according to a special dispatch from Cheyenne printed in The Watchman and Southron in October 1892. The dispatch says masked men seized both men from the deputy and killed them about thirty miles from the town. Burch was killed by the mob while in the custody of the deputy sheriff who was escorting him to the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to a special dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyoming, masked men seized Dob Burch and another man from a deputy sheriff and killed them about thirty miles from the town.
Reported by: special dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyo., as printed in the paper (reporters).