Lawrence Leberg
Lawrence Leberg, also reported as Loberg, was held in the jail at Las Animas, Colorado, in December 1906. According to a Pueblo Chieftain dispatch, about forty masked men entered the jail, overpowered the sheriff and other officers, and locked them in a room. The men took him from his cell and hanged him from a telegraph pole a short distance away, after a larger group gathered outside. The reports say he made no resistance and that jail officials knew who the ringleaders were.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 40 masked men took Lawrence Leberg from the Las Animas, Colorado jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole, according to the Pueblo Chieftain's special dispatch.
Reported by: Pueblo Chieftain special dispatch (reporters).