Died in jail or a lockup
Moshion
Moshion was held in a Wyoming Territory jail when, early on September 17, 1883, a mob took him from it and hanged him from a telegraph pole, according to a dispatch printed in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union. The dispatch says only thirty of the roughly six hundred citizens present wore masks, and that the mayor and the Territorial Secretary appealed to the crowd in vain. The dispatch describes a mob that broke into the jail and took him from it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch dated September 17 says a mob took Moshion from a jail early that morning and lynched him from a telegraph pole.
Reported by: news reports.