O. H. Handly
O. H. Handly was held in the jail at Carthage, Tennessee, when, according to The Lebanon Express, about fifty armed men came to the jail. The sheriff refused to give up the keys, so the mob broke into Handly's cell with axes and crowbars and took him out. The men carried him across a river and hanged him from a tree within sight of the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty armed men took O. H. Handly from his cell at the Carthage, Tenn. jail, broke into the cell with axes and crowbars after the sheriff refused to surrender the keys, and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Carthage, Tenn. jail sheriff (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.