Olaf
Olaf, a Native American man of the Omaha tribe, was held at the Bedford jail in Bedford, Iowa, in June 1889. According to an Associated Press dispatch printed in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union, citizens took him from the jail and lynched him. The Los Angeles Daily Herald reports that a crowd came to the sheriff early in the morning and demanded the keys, that the sheriff refused, and that the mob battered down the jail doors, removed Olaf and lynched him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Olaf from the Bedford, Iowa jail and lynched him, according to an Associated Press dispatch; a second account says the sheriff refused the mob's demand for the keys before they battered down the jail doors.
Reported by: Associated Press dispatch (reporters); newspaper report.