Henry Schiller
Henry Schiller, 24, was being held at the Versailles jail in Ripley County, Indiana. According to an Associated Press report, a crowd forced the jailer to hand over the keys shortly before 2 a.m. on September 15, 1897, and the mob took five men from the jail, Schiller among them, and hanged them from an elm tree on the public square. The report says the mob killed three of the men inside the jail and that none of the lynchers were known. Other accounts give the date of the killings as September 9 and describe how the men died differently.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Associated Press reported that a crowd forced the Versailles jailer to hand over the keys, and the mob took Henry from the jail and hanged him from an elm tree on the public square.
Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).