Philip Weaver
Philip Weaver was one of three brothers held under guard at the sheriff's residence in Anthony, Kansas, in April 1886, and his mother was present and begged the mob to spare her sons. The Emporia Weekly News reported that about forty armed men surrounded the house in the early morning, took the sheriff prisoner, and that the deputies surrendered. The Wichita Daily Eagle, citing an Anthony correspondent, said a mob of about fifty men from Danville disarmed the sheriff and took the prisoners toward a partly built schoolhouse, where they were roped and nearly hanged until citizens' bells scared the mob off, after which the brothers were shot. The accounts differ on the date, with one giving Saturday night and another the morning of April 19.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Emporia Weekly News reported that a mob surrounded the sheriff's residence in Anthony, Kansas, and shot him after roping him, and a Wichita Daily Eagle correspondent wrote that the mob had nearly hanged him before shooting him.
Reported by: The Emporia Weekly News (reporters); Anthony correspondent to the Wichita Daily Eagle (reporters).