Tom Bally

Tom Bally was held in the jail at Meadville, Mississippi, according to a special dispatch carried by the Chicago Daily News and reprinted in the Cheyenne Daily Leader in April 1883. The telegraphic report says a party of men took him from the jail and hanged him. The account is secondhand and brief.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Chicago Daily News, relaying a special dispatch from Meadville, Mississippi, reported that a party of men took Tom Bally from the jail and hanged him.

Reported by: Chicago Daily News, from a special dispatch (reporters).

Source

• The Cheyenne Daily Leader, April 17, 1883, page 2 The Cheyenne Daily Leader, April 17, 1883