Died in jail or a lockup
George Beele
Geo. Beele was being taken to jail in Shelbyville, Tennessee, when about two hundred men, described in a Shelbyville dispatch published in the Cheyenne Daily Leader as Ku Klux, took him from the officers escorting him. According to that dispatch, the group carried him about three miles from town and hanged him. The dispatch does not say how the officers responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Shelbyville dispatch published in the Cheyenne Daily Leader says about two hundred men took Geo. Beele from officers who were taking him to jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Shelbyville dispatch in the Cheyenne Daily Leader (reporters).