Direct quote from our history;
"The first and only hanging in this county occurred in 1867. A mob broke into the jail, secured its victim, who had murdered a fellow worker in cold blood, and hung him to a cottonwood tree. They left his body there until life was extinct, then buried it beneath the ice in the Loup River."

David Anderson 1870

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