Died in jail or a lockup
Louis A. Knott
Louis A. Knott was held in the jail at Colfax, in what was then Washington Territory, when a mob took him from the jail and lynched him on the morning of August 19, 1884, according to a Colfax dispatch printed in the Las Vegas Daily Gazette. A second brief item, in the Wessington Springs Herald, gives the same date and place but no further details about those involved. Neither account says how the mob got in or whether jail officers resisted or gave up the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Colfax dispatch reported by the Las Vegas Daily Gazette says a mob took Louis A. Knott from the Colfax jail and lynched him.
Reported by: Las Vegas Daily Gazette, citing a Colfax dispatch (reporters).