James Quick
James Quick was held in the Jefferson jail at Hillsboro, Missouri, in February 1869. According to the Missouri Democrat, as reported in The Evening Telegraph, a group of disguised men overpowered the jailer, took his keys, removed Quick from his cell and hanged him from an oak tree near a graveyard outside town. The paper said the jailer did not know any of the men. A St. Louis dispatch reprinted in the Worcester Daily Spy describes a large crowd taking him from the jail and hanging him. The accounts give the date as February 8 and February 9, 1869, and citizens found his body the next morning and brought it back to town.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A St. Louis dispatch says a crowd took him from the Jefferson County jail and hanged him, and the Missouri Democrat reports that disguised men overpowered the jailer and took his keys.
Reported by: St. Louis dispatch reprinted in the Worcester Daily Spy (reporters); Missouri Democrat (reporters).