Edward Meeks

Ed Meeks, a half brother of George Meeks, was held in the jail at Fort Scott, Kansas. According to The Montgomery Enterprise, a mob took him from the jail on the evening of January 20, 1900, and hanged him from a tree in the courthouse yard. The Pine Bluff Weekly Herald, in a brief published a week later, put the mob at 500 men and said it took Edward Meeks from the jail and lynched him, without giving a date.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Ed Meeks from the Fort Scott, Kansas jail and hanged him from a tree in the courthouse yard, according to a 1900 newspaper dispatch.

Reported by: The World (reporters).

News reports (2)

• The Montgomery Enterprise, January 26, 1900, page 4 The Montgomery Enterprise, January 26, 1900
• Pine Bluff Weekly Herald, January 27, 1900, page 3 Pine Bluff Weekly Herald, January 27, 1900