Rymer

Rymer was held in the jail at West Las Animas, Colorado, in August 1882. According to a Denver dispatch printed in the New-York Tribune, a mob of forty or fifty masked men took Rymer from the jail and hanged them. The dispatch says the men were supposed to be soldiers from Fort Lyon.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Denver dispatch in the New-York Tribune says a mob of forty or fifty masked men took Rymer from the West Las Animas jail and hanged him.

Reported by: Denver dispatch in the New-York Tribune (reporters).

Source

• New-York Tribune, August 23, 1882, page 1 New-York Tribune, August 23, 1882