Died in custody
Nicholas Foley
Nicholas Foley was in the custody of a deputy sheriff in Elgin, Nebraska, in June 1889, when a mob took him from the officer. The mob hanged him from a bridge near the scene of the events that led to his arrest. Per the 1889 account, the deputy sheriff who held him was the officer from whom the mob took him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: deputy sheriff who had captured him. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.