Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Frontier Index report carried in an Omaha dispatch published November 20, 1868, a vigilance committee took three men from the jail where they were held and hanged them near Bear River. The dispatch gives no names for the men and no details about who they were. It does not say whether jail staff resisted the committee, gave up the keys, or handed the men over.
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 (as relayed in an Omaha dispatch) (reporters).