Died in jail or a lockup
Greene
Green was one of two men taken from the jail at Hastings, Nebraska, by a mob and hanged, according to a brief report from April 1883. A Lincoln dispatch citing a special from Hastings gives a fuller account, saying about thirty-five masked men took a man named Greene from the jail the night before and hanged him. The Daily Evening Bulletin report gives only his surname and dates the death to April 5, while the dispatch dates it to April 3, and the two accounts differ on the name and the date.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief newspaper report says a mob took Green from the Hastings, Nebraska, jail and hanged him.
Reported by: brief newspaper report on the Hastings lynching (reporters).