Linda, without the date of the incident, it would be very difficult to find an article ....... I'm not even sure if there are newspapers available for 1875. I'll check for newspaper coverage of the hanging on March 1, 1878; it may give a date of the killing. If there is a book on the history of Sibley, it may be mentioned. You may want to contact a library in Sibley to see if they can help. (For the benefit of others reading this, I've posted the newspaper paragraph we're talking about below this note. To see the entire article, go to the Jackson County Message Board and do an "advanced search" ... enter: hanging.) But, Linda, here is some possible good news. When I posted the article, I was contacted by a person from the Kansas City Mailing List, who in turn was contacted by a person who was writing a book about legal hangings. The author was interested in Kansas City legal hangings. I don't know how much research he was doing, but I would think it would include why the person was hanged. He may have information about Henry Hughes. So to the Kansas City Mailing List person: can you put Linda in touch with the author? John ============================================= "Independence Sentinel" (Missouri) Saturday, December 31, 1898 LEGAL HANGINGS (one paragraph of seven) The next legal hanging was of Richard GREEN, March 1, 1878. He and Frank MILLER shot and killed Henry H. HUGHES, a deputy under Marshal James LIGGETT. MILLER took a change of venue to Lexington, Lafayette county, and was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, but as MILLER did not fire the fatal shot, Governor PHELPS commuted his sentence to ten years in the penitentiary. GREEN was hanged on a scaffold built in the open air against the north wall of the old county jail at Second and Main streets. Thousands of people stood on the hills north of the jail and saw the hanging. The crowd was so large that Marshall LIGGETT had to call out the CRAIG rifles and lined them along the bluff to keep the people from crowding each other over the edge. GREEN was remarkably cool and made no speech on the scaffold. ----- Original Message ----- From: <LBH721@aol.com> To: <MOJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:53 PM Subject: [MOJACKSO] Hughes in Independence Sentinel > John, I wonder if you could help me or maybe someone else with knowledge of > the Sibley/Ft. Osage area. > > You ran an article from the Independence Sentinel dated Sat. Dec. 21, 1898 > about legal hangings in Kansas City. > > It discussed the hanging of Richard Green for the murder of Henry H. Hughes > who was deputy marshall under Henry Liggett. Well Henry Hughes is my > husband's great grandfather. We knew he was killed in the line of duty in > Sibley, but have never seen a story about it. Can you find one? We do have > part of an undated obituary, newspaper unknown. > > Henry married Mary Henrietta Hamilton, daughter of Christopher Hamilton. > Hattie died Dec. 26, 1871 and is buried in Ft. Osage cemetery. I think Henry > was killed about 1875 and is also buried at Ft. Osage. > > Thanks to any and all who can help, Linda Hughes >