Died in jail or a lockup
One of 3 people whose names were not reported
An unnamed man was held in the log jail at Brownville, Nebraska, in December 1851. Masked men took him and two other men from the jail and led them to the river. A participant's deathbed statement, reported in the Omaha Daily Bee in August 1889, says the men were forced through an air-hole in the ice and drowned. The sheriff said masked men took the men from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A participant's deathbed statement, relayed in the Omaha Daily Bee, says the masked men forced the man through an ice hole in the river, where he drowned.
Reported by: a participant in the mob, via deathbed statement (witnesses); Omaha Daily Bee (reporters).