Rinehart
Rinehart was held in the jail at Lexington in La Sueur County, Minnesota. On the morning of December 27, 1858, a mob of thirty or forty men demanded the keys, and the sheriff and his deputy could not stop them from breaking into the jail and taking him from it. According to a Minnesota Statesman letter reprinted in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, the mob tore down the end wall, took him out of the village and hanged him from a tree, lowering him once when the noose was loose. The account says he protested his innocence and asked for a prayer before he was hanged again.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of thirty or forty men broke into the Lexington jail, tore down its end wall, seized Rinehart and hanged him from a tree, according to a Minnesota Statesman letter reprinted in the Daily Crescent.
Reported by: Minnesota Statesman letter, reprinted in the Daily Crescent (reporters).