Pete Willis

Pete Willis was held in the Kosciusko County jail in Warsaw, Indiana, when a masked mob overpowered the jailer, according to the record, and dragged him to a slaughter-house on the edge of town. The mob hanged him there, and he was left to strangle until a butcher found him dead on July 19, 1889. Earlier attempts to lynch him had been made the week before the killing.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A masked mob overpowered the jailer, took Pete Willis from the Kosciusko County jail to a slaughter-house and hanged him.

Reported by: Kosciusko County jail staff (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

Source

• The Citizen, July 27, 1889, page 3 The Citizen, July 27, 1889