Lucieno Padilio
Lucieno Padilio was being taken by the sheriff and a deputy to a home near Lincoln, Nebraska, so a victim could identify him, according to a dispatch from Lincoln published in the Semi-Weekly Miner on August 27, 1884. The dispatch says a mob seized him from the officers, took him to the spot where the mob said he had been, and hanged him from a tree on August 23, 1884. It reports that the officers were placed under guard and that he was allowed five minutes to pray. The account is a secondhand newspaper report, and the mob's actions are described from that report alone.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Lincoln, Nebraska dispatch in the Semi-Weekly Miner says a mob seized Lucieno Padilio while the sheriff and a deputy were taking him to a home so a victim could identify him, then hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Lincoln, Neb. dispatch published in the Semi-Weekly Miner (reporters).