Name not reported

According to a June 1892 editorial in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a Black person held in the Omaha jail in Nebraska was taken from the jail by a mob and killed. The editorial mentions this killing only in passing, while discussing lynching more broadly. This record remains of a Black person held at the Omaha jail whose killing by a mob was reported in 1892.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: editorial in an unnamed newspaper.

Source

• The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 3, 1892, page 4 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 3, 1892