Sheriff John McCargue

Sheriff John McCargue | Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, Kentucky
Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, Kentucky
Sheriff John McCargue

Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, Kentucky

End of Watch Sunday, September 13, 1891

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John McCargue

Sheriff John McCargue was assassinated by two brothers as he was putting his horse in his stable. Upon hearing the shots, his wife and daughter ran out to the stable and saw the brothers running away with pistols in their hands. Both were captured a short time later.

Three days later an angry mob seized the suspects from the county jail and hanged them both from a near-by sycamore tree. Both suspects denied killing the sheriff, and protested their innocence to the last.

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Incident Details

  • Cause Gunfire
  • Weapon Handgun; Pistol
  • Offender Lynched
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