One of 3 people whose names were not reported
A man held in the log jail at Brownville, Nebraska, was one of three men there on the night of December 2, 1854, when a group of masked men took him from the jail. According to a deathbed statement by one participant, recounted to Rev. Lawrence Gassman and published in the San Francisco Examiner, the men were led to the river, forced through a hole in the ice and drowned. The sheriff was reported to have said that masked men had taken the men from the jail. The man's name is not given in the accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A participant's account, recounted decades later to Rev. Lawrence Gassman and published in the San Francisco Examiner, says masked men took the man from the Brownville jail, led him to the river and drowned him through a hole in the ice.
Reported by: a participant, as recounted in a statement to Rev. Lawrence Gassman, published in the San Francisco Examiner (witnesses).