After a three-week trial, Young--who almost certainly did not commit the Spencer family murders--was also acquitted. Nevertheless, three days later he was hanged from his own pasture gate by a mounted lynch mob led by the same bounty-hunting detective who had designed, augmented, and executed Young's frame-up. Attempts to arrest and indict the bounty hunter and others for Young's murder were extraordinarily complicated, involving...
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