Died in custody
Name not reported
According to a St. Paul report printed in the Alexandria Gazette, a crowd forcibly took a man from the sheriff's custody near Little Falls, Minnesota, in August 1857. The crowd hanged him from a tree. The report's account of how the sheriff acted at the time is not given in the source.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: St. Paul newspaper dispatch (reporters).