Name not reported
An unidentified man, about thirty years old, was held in the Billings jail in Montana in July 1891. According to the coroner's inquest jury, a masked mob held up the jailer, battered the jail doors down with a sledge, and hanged him from a telegraph pole on the edge of town. The coroner cut him down the next morning, and the jury returned a verdict of death by hanging at the hands of persons unknown. In January 1892, Judge Milburn charged a grand jury to investigate the killing, which he called murder in the first degree, and the members of the mob had not been identified.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The coroner's inquest jury found he died by hanging at the hands of persons unknown, and Judge Milburn called the lynching murder in the first degree.
Reported by: the coroner's inquest jury (medical examiner or coroner); Judge Milburn (court); the newspaper dispatch.