Jack Bennett
Jack Bennett was being taken to the county jail by a deputy sheriff near Ladore in Routt County, Colorado, when about 25 masked men held up the deputy and seized him. Telegraph dispatches reported in the Salt Lake Herald and the Rawlins Semi-Weekly Republican say the mob hanged him from a gate, and that he pleaded for his life while promising to tell what he knew. The two accounts give different dates for his death, March 2 and March 3, 1898. The Salt Lake Herald's dispatch gives no account of whether the deputy resisted the mob or handed Bennett over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cheyenne dispatch reported in the Salt Lake Herald says about 25 masked men held up the deputy taking Jack Bennett to the county jail near Ladore and hanged him, while the Rawlins Semi-Weekly Republican, citing telegraph dispatches and a letter, says the mob took him from the deputy at Farnham's place.
Reported by: Cheyenne dispatch reported in the Salt Lake Herald (reporters); telegraph dispatches and a personal letter cited by the Rawlins Semi-Weekly Republican (reporters).