Died in jail or a lockup
Hallowell
A man named Hallowell was held in a Nebraska jail, and according to a brief Omaha dispatch reprinted in the Leavenworth Weekly Times on June 22, 1876, a mob took him from his cell at midnight and lynched him. The dispatch links the killing to the shooting of a deputy sheriff at Plum Creek earlier that same Saturday, June 10. The dispatch does not name the jail or describe how the mob got in, and it does not say whether the sheriff or jailers resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief Omaha dispatch reports that a man named Hallowell was taken from a jail at midnight and lynched.
Reported by: Omaha newspaper dispatch (reporters).