Steve Clark
Steve Clark was being taken to a Jackson County justice in the custody of a constable, with four men assisting, when they were stopped on horseback in a dense wood just past the county line. According to a correspondent writing from Seymour, Indiana, in The People, a mob seized the horses, drove the officers off under threat, and hanged Clark from a beech tree with a hempen cord. The account says Clark maintained that he was innocent, and that the mob did not respond to this claim. The officers' account of their resistance is reported only as the correspondent describes it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A correspondent writing from Seymour, Indiana, in a letter to The People says a mob seized Steve Clark while constable's custody was taking him to a Jackson County justice, and hanged him from a beech tree with a hempen cord.
Reported by: correspondent writing from Seymour, Indiana, in a letter to The People (reporters).