Died in custody
Name not reported
On April 19, 1886, one of two brothers named Weaver was being held by officers at Danville, Kansas. The Livingston Enterprise reported that a mob of about fifty men came for the brothers intending to lynch them. The paper said the brothers took revolvers from the deputies and tried to defend themselves, but were overpowered. The mob shot each man fifteen or twenty times, and the brothers' mother and one of their wives watched the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper account says a mob of about fifty men took the brothers from the officers holding them at Danville, Kansas, and shot each man fifteen or twenty times.
Reported by: 1886 newspaper account of the Danville, Kansas killing (reporters).