Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A dispatch from Nebraska dated March 12, 1870, reprinted in the Nashville Union and American on March 15, reports that a mob broke into a jail and took the people held there out and hanged them. The people killed are not named in the account. The lynching from custody is described only in this secondhand dispatch, which gives no further detail about those who died.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch from Nebraska, reprinted in the Nashville Union and American, says a mob broke into a jail and hanged the prisoners taken from it.
Reported by: Nashville Union and American, reprinting a dispatch from Nebraska (reporters).