Died in jail or a lockup
Frank Dilles
Frank Dilles, an American Indian man, was held in the Azotin jail. Around 11 o'clock on the night of August 19, 1896, about eighty men came to the jail and demanded the keys. The sheriff refused, and the men took the keys by force, unlocked the door and removed Frank from his cell. They hanged him from a pole at the corner of a fence.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about eighty men took Frank Dilles from the Azotin jail after the sheriff refused to give up the keys, and hanged him from a pole at a fence corner, according to the Omaha Daily Bee report.
Reported by: Omaha Daily Bee (reporters).