Hoffman

Hoffman was held in the jail at Nebraska City, Nebraska. The Orleans County Monitor reported in January 1887 that a mob took him from the jail and killed him. Hoffman was a man, and the paper's account is the only record of his death.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A short newspaper item reports that he was one of two men held in the Nebraska City jail and then taken out and lynched; it gives no account of how the mob got in or how jail staff responded.

Reported by: short newspaper item.

Source

• Orleans County Monitor, January 31, 1887, page 2 Orleans County Monitor, January 31, 1887