Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Cheyenne Daily Leader report published December 13, 1878, two people were taken from a Nebraska jail by a mob and burned to death. The report, as summarized here, gives no names for them and does not place the killing in a specific town or on a specific date. The paper called the killing barbaric.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Cheyenne Daily Leader (reporters).