Osborne
Osborne was held in the Crawford County jail in Robinson, Kansas. A St. Louis report reprinted in the Weekly Arkansas Gazette said a band of masked men entered the jail, took him out and hanged him from the nearest tree on August 18, 1876. A Leavenworth dispatch in the Chicago Daily Tribune placed the hanging on August 19, and an American Citizen account said a mob surrounded the jail on the night of August 18 and took him to a tree. The accounts differ on the date of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of masked men took Osborne from the Crawford County jail in Robinson, Kansas, and hanged him from the nearest tree, according to St. Louis and Leavenworth reports reprinted in the Weekly Arkansas Gazette.
Reported by: St. Louis advices reprinted in the Weekly Arkansas Gazette (reporters); Leavenworth dispatch (reporters).