Rigney

Rigney worked as a bartender at the Cosmopolitan theater in Miles City. On the night of July 25, 1883, he was taken from the Miles City jail, where he was being held, and hanged from a railroad tie over a culvert about a mile from town. Two hours later the Cosmopolitan theater burned along with six other buildings. The Perrysburg Journal reported that the fire was believed to be arson in retaliation for the hanging.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Rigney from the Miles City jail on the night of July 25, 1883, and hanged him from a railroad tie, according to a newspaper account.

Reported by: newspaper account.

Source

• Perrysburg Journal, August 3, 1883, page 1 Perrysburg Journal, August 3, 1883