Chas. Anderson
Chas. Anderson was held in the New Albany county jail in Indiana on the night of December 12, 1868, according to a telegraph dispatch carried by the Memphis Daily Appeal the next day. The dispatch says a mob of masked men entered the jail before dawn, took the keys and went to the cells, then hanged him from a post at the rear of the building. It reports that the mob left the jail locked with its other occupants inside, and that the sheriff was shot through the arm during the seizure. His wife, Mrs. Anderson, was in the city after his death, according to the same dispatch.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A New Albany telegraph dispatch reports that a mob of masked men took the jail keys and hanged Chas. Anderson from a post at the rear of the county jail.
Reported by: New Albany telegraph dispatch (reporters).