Jim Brown

Jim Brown was held in the jail at Lake City, Colorado, in April 1882. On April 27, about a hundred masked men overpowered the guard, took him and another man from the jail, and hanged them from a bridge in the lower part of town. The Huntsville Gazette and other papers of the time describe the men's deaths in the newspapers' own terms, and those accounts are not confirmed by other sources.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about a hundred masked men overpowered the guard at the Lake City, Colorado, jail, took Jim Brown from custody, and hanged him from a bridge.

Reported by: newspaper dispatch.

News reports (3)

• Huntsville Gazette, May 6, 1882, page 1 Huntsville Gazette, May 6, 1882
• The Grenada Sentinel, May 6, 1882, page 2 The Grenada Sentinel, May 6, 1882
• The Patron Of Husbandry, May 20, 1882, page 2 The Patron Of Husbandry, May 20, 1882