Name not reported
A young man held in the jail at Waverley, Iowa, was taken by a mob and hanged from a tree about half a mile east of the jail on June 8, 1883, according to a Waverley dispatch reprinted in the Salt Lake Herald. The sheriff refused to give up the keys, and the mob battered down the jail doors with sledgehammers before bringing the men out. He was the second of two young men taken from the jail that night. The article gives no names for either man, and nothing else about who he was is reported.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Waverley special dispatch reprinted in the Salt Lake Herald says a mob took the man from the Waverley jail and hanged him from a tree after the sheriff refused to give up the keys.
Reported by: Waverley special dispatch reprinted in the Salt Lake Herald (reporters).