Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Blair, Nebraska was taken by a mob of armed, masked farmers shortly before midnight on August 16, 1890, and hanged from a tree about a mile outside town, according to the Madison Daily Leader. The paper reports that the sheriff and about fifteen guards were keeping watch, that the sheriff ordered them to hold firm, and that the guards did not resist and the sheriff's keys were taken from him. The lynching was reportedly led by a son of the man whose death had prompted the crowd.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Madison Daily Leader account says a masked mob took a man from the Blair, Nebraska jail and hanged him from a tree, after the sheriff's keys were taken and guards refused to resist.
Reported by: Madison Daily Leader (reporters).