McCloskey
McClosky was held in the jail in Phoenix, Arizona, in August 1879. According to the Daily Republican, early on the morning of August 22 a mob took him from the jail, along with another man named Keller, and hanged them in a public square. A Phoenix dispatch reported in the Helena Weekly Herald said a vigilance committee marched to the jail, took him out and hanged him from a tree on the plaza, and that no opposition was made to it. Both accounts describe his death as a lynching carried out after he was taken from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took McClosky from the Phoenix, Arizona jail and hanged him in a public square, according to a Daily Republican report; a San Francisco dispatch says a vigilance committee took McCloskey from the jail and hanged him from a tree, with no opposition made.
Reported by: Daily Republican (reporters); San Francisco dispatch reporting a Phoenix, Arizona dispatch (reporters).