John Keller
John Keller was held in a jail in Kansas in August 1873. According to a Chicago Tribune dispatch from Kansas City, Missouri, word spread that a crowd planned to take him, and he was first moved to the woods. A crowd of about three hundred men then demanded to know where he was, and the sheriff, unable to resist them, revealed his location. The mob seized him about eight miles away, took him back to town, and hanged him from a tree after he was allowed to make his will.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Chicago Tribune dispatch from Kansas City, Mo. reports that a crowd of about three hundred men took Keller from the custody of the sheriff, who revealed where he was held, and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Chicago Tribune special dispatch from Kansas City, Mo. (reporters).