J. Stratton
J. Stratton was held in a jail in Bloomfield, Nebraska, in March 1890. According to a special dispatch in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union, a large crowd of masked, armed men forced their way to his cell, put a rope around his neck, and dragged him to a nearby stable, where he was hanged from a rafter. The coroner found his body there, and the coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by hanging at the hands of unknown parties.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by hanging at the hands of unknown parties after a masked, armed crowd took J. Stratton from his cell in the Bloomfield, Nebraska jail and hanged him from a stable rafter.
Reported by: Coroner's jury (medical examiner or coroner); special dispatch to the newspaper.