Charles Selyers

Charles Selyers was held in the county jail at Lexington, Missouri, in August 1902. According to the Waterbury Democrat, a masked mob came for the prisoners at about 1:30 a.m., and the jailer refused their demand. Several men broke in the outer door and cut through the steel cell doors to reach him, then took him and hanged him from a tree about half a mile south of town. Before he was hanged, he was allowed to make a statement to the mob, and another account names Harry Gates as hanged the same night.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody

News reports (3)

• Waterbury Democrat, August 12, 1902, page 1 Waterbury Democrat, August 12, 1902
• The Osceola Times, August 23, 1902, page 3 The Osceola Times, August 23, 1902
• Crittenden Press, August 28, 1902, page 2 Crittenden Press, August 28, 1902