Died in custody
Name not reported
In August 1857, a telegraphic dispatch from St. Paul, Minnesota, dated August 24, reported that a mob near Little Falls took a man from a sheriff and hanged him from a tree. It was the second of three such killings the dispatch described. The dispatch gives no name, age, or other details about the man, and it does not say how the sheriff responded, whether he resisted or handed the man over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telegraphic dispatch from St. Paul's, Minnesota, dated August 24, 1857 reports that a mob took one of three men from a sheriff near Little Falls and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: telegraphic dispatch from St. Paul's, Minnesota (reporters).