Died in jail or a lockup
Patrick Wildrich
Patrick Wildrich was held in the jail of a small town in the Wisconsin valley in September 1867. According to a newspaper account published in 1897, he had fought through the Civil War in the same company as a man who was killed earlier that day. About 400 people, friends of that man, entered the town and stormed the jail, and a mob took Wildrich from it. The mob hanged him from a tree in a ravine near the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.