Ketchum
Ketchum was held in the custody of the Custer County, Nebraska, sheriff and his posse in December 1878. On the night of December 10, according to an Omaha dispatch, an armed mob of about twenty-five masked men took Ketchum and another man from the sheriff and his posse, tied them to a tree and burned them to death. The New York Herald's correspondent wrote that both men were probably innocent. The accounts name the other man as Mitchell, and the reports differ on the exact place and date of the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Omaha dispatch reports that a mob of about twenty-five armed, masked men took Ketchum from the Custer County sheriff and his posse, tied him to a tree and burned him to death.
Reported by: Omaha dispatch (reporters); Lexington Weekly Intelligencer (reporters).
Sources (10)
- Wheeling Register, December 13, 1878, page 1
- The Daily Dispatch, December 14, 1878, page 2
- The New York Herald, December 14, 1878, page 7
- The Columbus Journal, December 18, 1878, page 2
- The Camden Journal, December 19, 1878, page 2
- Fulton Journal, December 20, 1878, page 2
- The Iola Register, December 20, 1878, page 1
- Chariton Courier, December 21, 1878, page 1
- Lexington Weekly Intelligencer, December 21, 1878, page 2
- The Superior Times, December 21, 1878, page 2