Died in jail or a lockup
Pied Loshmau
Pied Loshmau, a saloon keeper, was in the custody of a jail when a mob broke in and took him on Friday night, August 16, 1889. According to a brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, published four days later, the mob lynched him. The item is the only account of his death in this record.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief 1889 newspaper item reports that a mob took him from a jail and lynched him on Friday night.
Reported by: Semi-Weekly Interior Journal (reporters).