A well-behaved mob lynches a horse thief and murderer in the town square in Kokomo, Indiana

In Kokomo, Indiana, a criminal had shot and killed two citizens during a robbery a few days before.  In the evening, a crowd gathered at the jail and, after listening respectfully to the pleas of officials to desist, took the accused from his cell, heard his confession, afforded him a clergyman, and then, at around ten thirty, hanged him before a large crowd from a gallows erected in the town square.  His body was left overnight and then given a decent burial. An observer described the mob as the most civil he had ever seen, like churchgoers on a Sunday. (By John Osborne)