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Subject: [BARRINGER] Lum Barringer, TX/OK; hanging
Date: 15 May 2003 20:36:42 -0600

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(This is a message that was posted on another website...hope it helps someone at this site)

Extracted from the Jan. 1890 "Hesperian" published in Gainesville, Cooke
Co., TX:

A number of deputy marshals arrested 7 men Saturday 12 miles west of
Ardmroe, charged with lynching old man J. L. Keys some 6 weeks earlier near
Healdton, I. T. The parties arrested were neighbors of Keys at the time the
old man was lynched. The prisoners will have a preliminary hearing before
Commissioner Low Ardmore Monday, and they will be prosecuted by U. S.
district attorney Wilson of Paris, Texas.

Ardmore, I. T. Jan. 29---

... investigating the case of Bill Isbell, Nick and Dick Everheart, Hes
Warden, Tony Webber, John Stephens, Lum Barringer, and John Blackburn,
charged with the hanging of J. H. Keyes on the 18th day of November
last....the testimony for the government was very conflicting as to
essential fact... testimony for the prosecution amounted to nothing as the
main witnesses were successfully impeached... defense was conducted by
Guthridge, Fleming & Campbell and Heard & Wasson.

Judge Wilson in a very forcible manner presented the case of the government
and with the exception of John Stephens and Lum Barringer, the defendants
were committed to the Paris jail without bail. The defendants are regarded
as the best citizens of the Chickasaw nation and it was a great surprise to
our people they were held to answer to the cause of murder as there was not
a scintilla of evidence against them.

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