Died in jail or a lockup

Orlando Cassler

died May 20, 1879 · Seward County, Nebraska

Orlando Cassler was being held in the custody of the sheriff at Seward, Nebraska, when a mob took him from the sheriff and hanged him on May 20, 1879. The Corvallis Gazette reported the death in a brief dispatch published May 30, 1879, and said that he declared his innocence before he died. His death was a lynching from the custody of the sheriff at Seward.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

The Corvallis Gazette, May 30, 1879, page 2 The Corvallis Gazette, May 30, 1879

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