Charles F. Stevens ("Omaha Charley")
Charles Stevens was held at the jail in Maryville, Missouri, in December 1884. According to a Maryville dispatch printed in the Kenosha Telegraph, a masked mob of about sixty men came to the jail in the early morning, and Sheriff Anderson refused to give up his prisoner. The dispatch reports that the sheriff and a deputy fired on the crowd, wounding one man, and that the mob took Stevens from his cell and hanged him from a railway bridge. Accounts differ on whether the sheriff gave up the cell keys, and a later report dates the killing to Tuesday, December 16, rather than December 9.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to a Maryville, Mo. dispatch in the Kenosha Telegraph, a masked mob of about sixty men obtained the cell keys from the jail, took Charles Stevens out and hanged him from a railway bridge after Sheriff Anderson and his deputy fired on the crowd.
Reported by: Kenosha Telegraph, Maryville, Mo. dispatch (reporters); Sheriff Anderson (the agency that held him).