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George Mack

Barton County, Kansas

George Mack was held in the custody of officers at Great Bend, Kansas, after being brought there from Kansas City in May 1885. According to the Delta Chief, a mob took him from the officers, put a rope around his neck, dragged him behind a horse at full gallop to town and hanged him. A second account, from the Connecticut Western News, says a mob took him from the officers and hanged him, without giving a date. Neither account says whether the officers resisted the mob or handed him over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took George Mack from officers in Great Bend, Kansas, where he had been brought from Kansas City, and hanged him; the accounts do not say whether the officers resisted or handed him over.

Reported by: news reports.

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