Lucinna Paddillo
Lucinna Paddillo, a man about thirty years old, was in the custody of Lancaster County officers in August 1884 while he was being taken toward the Highland precinct. According to the coroner's jury, a mob overtook Sheriff Mellick and the other officers, and one account says the officers were overpowered after they took refuge in a barn. The mob took Lucinna Paddillo, carried him to a tree and hanged him, and the coroner's jury found that he died at the hands of that mob. One account says the sheriff and officers resisted as best they could, and a later report said that one man in the mob, whose name was given, was the postmaster at Crete, while the other members were not identified.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A coroner's jury found he died at the hands of a mob while under Sheriff Mellick's custody.
Reported by: coroner's jury (medical examiner or coroner); news reports.