Hales
William Hales was held in the jail at Kenton, Ohio, in April 1891. Early one morning a mob of about fifty men broke into the jail, and Sheriff Neville came downstairs with a revolver but was confronted by about a dozen men holding four revolvers to his face, who demanded the keys. The sheriff said he did not have them, and the mob found them in an adjoining room, opened the cells and took Hales out. They hanged him from a maple tree about fifty yards from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty men broke into the Kenton jail, took the keys from the sheriff at gunpoint and hanged Hales from a maple tree near the jail.
Reported by: Kenton, O. newspaper dispatch (reporters); Sheriff Neville (the agency that held him).