Reinhart
Reinhart was held in the log jail at Lexington when, on the morning of December 27, 1858, a mob of thirty or forty men arrived and demanded the keys. According to the Minnesota Statesman, the sheriff and his deputy could not stop them, and the mob broke down the gable end of the jail, seized him, and took him from the village. The account says they hanged him, that the rope was loosened once and he was hauled up again, and that he protested his innocence before he died. Reinhart asserted his innocence, and at his request a bystander was called on to pray before he was hanged.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Minnesota Statesman reports that a mob of thirty or forty men took Reinhart from the log jail at Lexington after the sheriff and his deputy could not stop them, and hanged him.
Reported by: Minnesota Statesman (reporters).