Died in jail or a lockup
Harry Nosher
Harry Nosher, spelled Nosber in a second newspaper report, was held in the jail in Cheyenne. According to a Chicago dispatch printed in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette, masked men took him from the jail. They hanged him from a telegraph pole in the center of the city on September 18, 1883.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Newspaper dispatches report that masked men took him from the Cheyenne jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole, and the accounts do not say whether jail staff resisted.
Reported by: Chicago dispatch in the Fort Worth Daily Gazette (reporters); Cheyenne special dispatch in the Dallas Weekly Herald (reporters).