Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three men held in a jail near Bear River were taken out by a vigilance committee and hanged, according to a report from the Frontier Index carried in an Omaha dispatch dated November 12, 1868. The Daily Ohio Statesman printed the dispatch on November 20. The men are not named in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Frontier Index, relayed in an Omaha dispatch, reports that a vigilance committee took three men from a jail and hanged them near Bear River.
Reported by: Frontier Index (via Omaha dispatch) (reporters).