Richard Jennings
Richard Jennings had lived in Grass Valley since boyhood and left a wife and five children there. He was held in the jail at the Court-house in Austin, Nevada. Shortly after 1 a.m. on December 14, 1881, about twenty-five masked, armed men broke down a door, took the keys from the deputy sheriff at gunpoint, opened his cell and hanged him from the Court-house portico. The coroner's verdict, as the paper reported it, was death by hanging at the hands of unknown persons.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked mob of about twenty-five men took the keys from the deputy sheriff at gunpoint, opened Richard Jennings's cell and hanged him, according to the record summarized here; the coroner's verdict, as the paper reported it, was death by hanging at the hands of unknown persons.
Reported by: Coroner (verdict as reported by the paper, which said it was supposed) (medical examiner or coroner).