Hanged, But Not Dead

Williamstown, Ky., May 6. - News has just been reached here of the hanging of Dr. Ferrell at Elliston, Ky., Monday night by a mob.  Ferrell had the reputation of a wife beater.  He came home drunk Monday and proceeded to whip his wife.  that night a mob was organized and strung him up to a limb.  He was discovered later by some boys and cut down before his life was extinct. It is thought he will recover.

from the Maysville, Kentucky Evening Bulletin, May 6, 1896