Mansfield
Mansfield was one of two people held in custody and being taken under guard by coach from Cheyenne toward Deadwood. On the night of Friday, November 8, 1878, near Laramie, five masked men stopped the coach, according to the coach driver's report, and forced the guards to hand over their weapons and the prisoners. The men took Mansfield and the other prisoner to a cottonwood tree on the bank of the Platte River and hanged them. A deputy coroner, M. L. Green, found the bodies at daylight the next morning.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to the coach driver's report, five masked men stopped the coach near Laramie, took Mansfield out and hanged him from a cottonwood tree.
Reported by: coach driver's report (witnesses); Deputy Coroner M. L. Green (medical examiner or coroner).