Edward Stinebeck
Edward Stinebeck was one of three brothers held in the Tiptonville jail in Lake County, Tennessee. On the night of November 24, 1908, a mob gathered at the jail, and a lawyer and a relative of a man who had been killed asked the crowd to wait, but the crowd would not. The governor had telegraphed the sheriff to prevent the lynching, and the mob took the three brothers from the jail and hanged them. Newspaper accounts differ on where they were hanged, with one describing a scaffold inside a church and another a tree near the courthouse.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news report says a mob took Edward Stinebeck and his two brothers from the Tiptonville jail and hanged them, after a lawyer asked the crowd to wait for a trial.
Reported by: Newspaper report (reporters).
Sources (8)
- The New Haven Union, November 25, 1908, page 6
- Perth Amboy Evening News, November 25, 1908, page 2
- The Montgomery Advertiser, November 26, 1908, page 1
- The Robesonian, November 26, 1908, page 2
- Los Angeles Herald, November 26, 1908, page 1
- The Times And Democrat, November 27, 1908, page 1
- Dakota County Herald, November 27, 1908, page 1
- The Hartford Republican, December 4, 1908, page 3