Died in jail or a lockup
Schumme
A man named Schumme was held at the Georgetown jail in Georgetown, Colorado, and was taken from it by a mob on December 15, 1877, and hanged. The account was published by the American Citizen a week later. Its details are limited to his name, the jail, and the hanging, and it does not describe how the mob reached him or whether the jail's officers resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.