Noah Anderson

Noah Anderson was held in the New Richmond jail in Kentucky. In the early morning of August 21, 1895, a crowd gathered outside calling for him to be hanged. Newspaper accounts report that a mob took him from a marshal and a deputy sheriff as they were moving him toward the county jail at Batavia, dragged him a short distance and hanged him from a tree. The officers resisted but were overpowered, and accounts differ on whether the mob broke into the jail or seized him from the officers first.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Noah Anderson from the New Richmond jail in Kentucky, overpowered the marshal and deputy sheriff, and hanged him from a tree.

Reported by: news report (Delaware Gazette and State Journal, from an unnamed news dispatch) (reporters).

Sources (4)

• Birmingham Age-Herald, August 22, 1895, page 5 Birmingham Age-Herald, August 22, 1895
• The Record-Union, August 22, 1895, page 1 The Record-Union, August 22, 1895
• The San Francisco Call, August 22, 1895, page 2 The San Francisco Call, August 22, 1895
• Delaware Gazette And State Journal, August 29, 1895, page 8 Delaware Gazette And State Journal, August 29, 1895