Deadly Vigilante Justice: An Old West Tale from Silver Reef Ghost Town.

Описание: In October 1880, the general superintendent of the mine ordered Michael Carbis to fire an Irish Catholic miner, Tom Forrest, who was a trouble-maker. Forrest vowed to get even, and jumped Carbis later and knifed him in the stomach. Carbis soon died and Forrest was arrested and put in the city jail. The townspeople threatened to lynch Forrest, so he was moved to the jail in St George. A masked and armed mob gathered at Silver Reef and followed the escorted prisoner. In St George, they overpowered the sheriff, took the keys and dragged Forrest outside. They attempted to hang him on the arm of a telegraph pole, then the limb of a cottonwood tree. It seems no attempt was made to identify and prosecute the mob members.
Silver Reef was a mining town in Washington County, Utah that was a boomtown from the 1870s to the early 1900s:
Silver Reef is located about 18 miles north of St. George Utah and 37 miles south of Cedar City Utah off Interstate 15.
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