Martin Archer
Martin Archer was the brother of Thomas Archer and had a family living in Southwest township of Orange county, Indiana, where two of his children were young women teaching school. Early on March 10, 1886, about 100 men took him from the jail at Shoals, Indiana, along with two others, and hanged him from maple trees in the courthouse yard. The Examiner, a brief newspaper dispatch from the period, reports the mob and the hanging. The accusations against the men in that account are not repeated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 100 men took Martin Archer from the Shoals, Indiana jail in the early hours of March 10, 1886, and hanged him from a maple tree in the courthouse yard.
Reported by: news reports.