Died in custody
Name not reported
According to a report from Indian Agent John A. Wright at Lemhi to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, two American Indian men held at the Lemhi Agency were taken from a guard by a mob and shot to death. Wright's report, as published in the Northern Ohio Journal on December 21, 1878, says the mob's members are known and that some had connections to the agency. The men are not named in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Indian Agent John A. Wright reported that a mob took two Indian prisoners from a guard and shot them to death.
Reported by: John A. Wright, Indian Agent at Lemhi (the agency that held them). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held them.