George and Ed Silshee The Missourians, also known under alias' were shackled and behind bars, accused of the murder of a young farm hand and the attempted murder of the deputy sheriff. In the dead of night, in fort Scott, Kansas, a mob broke the shackled pair out of jail and hung them in nearby trees. Spectators which included women and children climbed trees and rooftops to get a good view. The word of the lynching spread and the community came to view the corpses until the next day. The men's necks were not broken, they had actually died from strangulation.
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