John Donohue
According to the Pioche Daily Record, John Donohue was being transported by officers from Ward toward Hamilton when about twenty masked men took him from the stage near the Pioche road and rode off toward Ward. His body was found the next morning hanging from a tree near the road. A coroner's jury found that he was taken from the officers by persons unknown and hanged until dead. A correspondent's letter in the Weekly Elko Independent says officers first kept a crowd from lynching him before an armed party took him from them on the road to Hamilton.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The coroner's jury found that persons unknown took him from the officers and hanged him until dead, and a correspondent's letter in the Weekly Elko Independent says an armed party took him from the officers on the road to Hamilton.
Reported by: Coroner's jury at inquest (medical examiner or coroner); Correspondent's letter in the Weekly Elko Independent (reporters).