Deaths in Custody
Died in custody

Name not reported

Holt County, Nebraska

According to the Evening Bulletin of July 3, 1894, a crowd took a man from the officers holding him and hanged him near Bush Creek, outside Atkinson, Nebraska. Ralph Hills and his son are named in the same report. The killing was carried out by a crowd that came for him while he was in the custody of officers.

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

Reported by: unnamed report from Atkinson, Nebraska (reporters).

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