George Parrot ("Big Nose George")
George Parrot was being held in a jail in March 1881 when, according to a dispatch from Cheyenne reprinted in the Somerset Herald, a group of masked men took him from it at about 10 o'clock one night. The dispatch says the men carried him to a telegraph pole by the railroad machine shops and hanged him. Parrot was killed by the mob after being taken from the jail, and the jail's response is not described in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cheyenne dispatch reprinted in the Somerset Herald says masked men took George Parrot from the Hawiins jail at about 10 o'clock one night and hanged him from a telegraph pole by the railroad machine shops.
Reported by: Cheyenne dispatch reprinted in the Somerset Herald (reporters).