Dick Scales
Dick Scales was held in the Burlington, Kentucky jail, according to the Rock Island Argus, which reported from Covington. The paper says a mob of about eighty men broke in during the early hours of Friday, September 11, 1885, after the jail held out for about half an hour, and took him from his cell. The report says he was thrown down stone steps, cut on the head, and driven away in a wagon, and that he was hanged on a road outside town. The paper also says that before he was hanged he insisted he was innocent and asked for a chance to make a statement, and that the sheriff and a posse later met the mob in a sharp fight.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Rock Island Argus, reporting from Covington, Kentucky, says a mob of about eighty men broke into the Burlington jail, took Dick Scales from his cell and hanged him on a road outside town.
Reported by: The Rock Island Argus (reporters).