Died in jail or a lockup
Louis Curry
Louis Curry was held in the jail at Rapid City, Dakota Territory, in June 1877. According to a Deadwood dispatch printed in the Eureka Daily Sentinel, an unidentified group broke into the jail on a Wednesday night, took him from it and hanged him. A Chicago Daily Tribune report of the same events says three men held there were taken out and hanged together, and that Louis was one of them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Deadwood dispatch in the Eureka Daily Sentinel reports that a mob broke open the Rapid City jail, took Louis Curry out and hanged him; the dispatch does not say how the jail staff responded.
Reported by: Deadwood dispatch reported in the Eureka Daily Sentinel (reporters).