Died in custody
Name not reported
A man held in the custody of a sheriff near Little Falls, Minnesota, was taken from the officer by a crowd and hanged from a tree, according to a brief item in the Dollar Weekly Mirror published in August 1857. The item says he was one of three men held together, but it does not name him or the others. It gives no date for the killing beyond the paper's publication date. It does not say whether the sheriff resisted the crowd, gave up the keys or handed the man over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched