William Pearl

According to a February 1883 garrison account carried by the New York Dispatch, William Pearl was held in the jail at Lincoln when a mob took him from the jail and hanged him. That account says he begged for his life before he was killed, and that the hanging happened the night before the report. A short item in the Grant County Herald of February 16, 1883, also reports that he was taken from a jail by a mob and lynched.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took William Pearl from the county-seat jail at Lincoln and hanged him, according to an unnamed writer of a garrison account reporting what was asserted at the post.

Reported by: unnamed writer of the garrison account.

Sources (2)

• New York Dispatch, February 4, 1883, page 7 New York Dispatch, February 4, 1883
• The Grant County Herald, February 16, 1883, page 2 The Grant County Herald, February 16, 1883