Died in jail or a lockup
James Nelson
James Nelson was held in the Frontier County jail in Nebraska in December 1884. According to a short Omaha dispatch printed in the Las Vegas Daily Gazette, a group of men described as regulators took him from the jail at night. The dispatch reports that he was shot, his throat was cut, and his body was hung up to freeze. A separate report in the Turner County Herald also describes him as lynched by regulators after being taken from the Frontier County jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody