Died in jail or a lockup
One of 3 people whose names were not reported
A man named Barber was held in the jail at Waverly, Iowa, together with his brother. According to a Waverly dispatch reprinted in The Marietta Journal, a mob from Fayette County broke into the jail at about 11:30 p.m. on June 8, 1883, took both brothers, and hanged them from a tree about half a mile east of the jail. The dispatch says the sheriff refused to give up the keys and that the mob battered the doors down with a sledge hammer.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch from Waverly, as printed in the paper, says a mob took the Barber boys from the jail and hanged them from a tree.
Reported by: a special dispatch from Waverly, as printed in the paper (reporters).