Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In October 1860, a man held at the Council Bluffs jail was taken from the jail overnight by a mob, according to a dispatch from Omaha printed in The Athens Post. The next morning he was found hanging from the limb of a tree, dead. The dispatch said three other men taken with him were presumed to have been killed the same way, though their bodies had not been found.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Omaha dispatch reports that a mob took him from the Council Bluffs jail overnight and he was found hanged from a tree the next morning.
Reported by: Omaha dispatch (newspaper report) (reporters).