Edward Maxwell
Edward Maxwell was held in the Durand jail in Durand, Wisconsin, and was brought up to the courtroom for a hearing on November 19, 1881. According to the Jamestown Alert, a crowd of several hundred people, some of them armed, surged into the courtroom, tore him away and hanged him in the streets. The Huntsville Gazette, which places the killing in the courtyard after he had spoken in court, says a rope was thrown over his neck and he was pulled to a tree and hanged. The two accounts differ on where he was killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Edward Maxwell from the Durand jail courtroom and hanged him, according to a newspaper account reprinting a report of the lynching.
Reported by: Jamestown Alert (reprinting a report of the lynching) (reporters).