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John Rienev

died 1883 · Custer County, Montana

According to a 1939 reminiscence by D. J. O'Malley in the Glacier County Chief, John Rienev was taken from the jail in Miles City, Montana, in the early 1880s and hanged by a lynch mob. O'Malley recalls that the jailor, Jim Conley, was called to the door in the early morning and told there was a prisoner for him, and that the crowd argued with him there while the man was taken. The account gives no further details of the event, and no other sources are cited for it.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. O'Malley's 1939 reminiscence says a lynch mob took Rienev from the jail and hanged him, after the jailor was called to the door and argued with the crowd.

Reported by: D. J. O'Malley, writing in the Glacier County Chief.

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