Just Deserts?

Cannon Co., Tenn. (1898)

10/1/1898: Execution of judgment on a killer’s property in settlement of a civil suit for a homicide the previous year caused killer and friends and friends to ambush those executing the judgment, killing four and fatally wounding a fifth man.

Category: public

Suicide: no

Cause: revenge

Weapon: shotguns[1]

Murfreesboro, Tenn. (1898)

10/2/1898: Leader of previous mass murder was lynched with two associates..

Category: public

Suicide: no

Cause: lynch

Weapon: unknown[2]

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[1] “Result of a Southern Feud,” Omaha Daily Bee,Oct. 3, 1898, 1.

[2] “ATriple Lynching,” El Paso Daily Herald,Oct. 3, 1898, 1.