Died in custody
Name not reported
According to a brief item in the Dollar Weekly Mirror of August 29, 1857, one of three men held in the custody of a sheriff near Little Falls, Minnesota, was taken from the officer by a crowd and hanged from a tree. The item records the men's killing as a lynching from custody but gives no names, ages or date for them. It also does not say how the sheriff responded to the crowd.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.