Joe Simpson
Joe Simpson was held in the Skiddoo jail in Nevada. According to a Rhyolite dispatch carried by the Carson City Daily Appeal, between forty and fifty masked, armed miners gathered at the jail early in the morning. The deputy sheriff who slept in the building gave up the key to Simpson's cell, and the mob took him to the main street and hanged him from a telephone pole. The coroner was summoned from Rhyolite and cut the body down. The paper reported that no one was brought to justice for the lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Carson City Daily Appeal, citing its Rhyolite dispatch, reports that a masked mob took Joe Simpson from the Skiddoo jail after the deputy sheriff gave up the key to his cell, and hanged him from a telephone pole.
Reported by: Carson City Daily Appeal, citing its Rhyolite dispatch (reporters); the coroner.