Note 70 — V. SOCIAL HARMONIES AND DISCORDS
Reading edition
“Fifteen participators in the lynching affair were indicted and tried for the murder of DeBar in May, 1856. They were acquitted, as the testimony did not sustain the allegation that ‘he came to his death by hanging,’ there being a reasonable doubt as to his being alive when he was hung the last time.” History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties (1881), 358. Editor’s italics.