Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the Adams County jail in Nebraska was taken from the jail by a crowd of local residents and hanged from a railroad bridge east of town, according to the Weekly Independent, which reported it in December 1899. He was one of two men held there who were seized that night. The newspaper does not name him. The account of how the jail was entered and whether its officers resisted or handed the men over is not clear in the record.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched