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Walters

died 1872 · Nez Perce County, Idaho

According to a December 1899 retrospective in the Lewiston Teller, Walters was taken from the Lewiston jail by a mob and hanged from a gateway arch on Snake River Avenue around 1872. The paper reports that some people said a skull kept in a local doctor's office was Walters's, while others dispute this. Walters's burial place is uncertain according to the same account.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). The Lewiston Teller's 1899 retrospective says a mob took Walters from the Lewiston jail and hanged him from a gateway arch, but the account does not say whether jail officers resisted or handed him over, and some say a skull kept in a local doctor's office is his while others dispute it.

Reported by: Lewiston Teller (reporters).

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