Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to the Cheyenne Daily Leader of December 13, 1878, a person held in a Nebraska jail was taken from it by a mob and burned to death. The item does not name this person, the town, or the date of the killing, and it describes it as the second such death in a short span. The paper calls the killing barbaric. It gives no account of how the jail's officers or sheriff acted when the mob came.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The 1878 Cheyenne Daily Leader item reports that a mob took a second person from a Nebraska jail and burned them to death.
Reported by: Cheyenne Daily Leader (reporters).