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Article: Tulsa World, Okla., Only in Oklahoma column.(Column)
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- Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
- Article date:
- March 12, 2007
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Byline: Gene Curtis
Mar. 12--A mob of 150-200 men overpowered the jailers at Ada, snatched four prisoners from their cells and hanged them from the rafters in an old livery barn. The prisoners had been accused of killing a popular former police officer.
The April 19, 1909, lynchings followed the confession by one of the men at a kangaroo court. The news caused the mob to become so enraged that all four men were lynched.
The four were in the Ada jail awaiting trial on murder charges for the ambush killing of former Ada Marshal A.A. Bobbitt -- who was described in a Tulsa World story as a well-known hunter of bad men and as a man "absolutely ...
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