Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
January 29 - The last lynching
The last illegal execution in North Dakota happened in Schaefer. On this date in 1931 when a mob seized a prisoner named Charles Bannon and lynched him a half mile from the jail.
About a year earlier, in February, people had begun to notice that they hadn’t seen the Albert Haven family around. Twenty-two year-old Bannon had just started working on the Haven farm, and...
