Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three men from near Coon Rapids were held in the Audubon county jail when a mob took them from the jail and killed them without any trial, according to an Omaha Daily Bee account published in May 1898 that describes the events as having happened some years earlier. The article gives no names for the men. It says the killings stirred strong feeling in the area around their homes.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.