Name not reported
Two young men were held in the Waverly jail on June 8, 1883, when, according to a news dispatch printed in the Custer Chronicle on June 16, a mob broke into the jail. The dispatch says the crowd, reported to have come from Fayette County, smashed the jail doors with sledgehammers and took the two men out with ropes around their necks. It says they were hanged from a tree about half a mile east of the jail. The dispatch reports that the sheriff refused to give up the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch from Waverly reports that a mob from Fayette County broke into the Waverly jail with sledge hammers, took the two men out and hanged them from a tree; the sheriff reportedly refused to give up the keys.
Reported by: news dispatch from Waverly (reporters).