Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On Friday night, June 8, 1883, a mob took one of the Barber brothers from the Waterloo jail, where he was being held, and killed him. The newspaper account says the bodies were taken from the jail and buried the following night. A coroner's inquest into the deaths had begun but had not been completed when the paper published its report on June 12, 1883.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: historical newspaper report.