L. H. Musgrove
L. H. Musgrove was held in the jail at Denver, Colorado Territory, in November 1868. The Denver Tribune, as reprinted in the Cheyenne Leader, reports that on the afternoon of Monday, November 23, a crowd marched to the jail after a party had already taken control of the officers and the building, and voted to take him out. Men led him to the middle of the Cherry Creek bridge, where he was hanged from a wagon. In letters he wrote before he died, he asked his brother to go for his young children and care for them, and he wrote that he was innocent and had been in Denver when the mob came for him. A Chicago Tribune dispatch describes a mob of about sixty people dragging him to the bridge, but its dateline is garbled, so the date given here comes from the Cheyenne Leader.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd took L. H. Musgrove from the Denver jail after a party had taken control of the officers and building, and hanged him from a wagon on the Cherry Creek bridge.
Reported by: Chicago Tribune dispatch (Denver) (reporters); Denver Tribune (reporters).