Divine Intervention?

A lightning bolt stopped a lynching.

Near Canyon Diablo in Arizona, along the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, an aspiring train robber hijacked the payroll intended for the railroad construction crew building a bridge across the canyon. The outraged workers quickly formed a posse and went in hot pursuit of their money. They caught up with the outlaw but alas, during the chase he had lost his saddlebags containing the payroll. They started to hang him from a tree limb, but just then a lightning bolt hit the tree. They took the outlaw back to Canyon Diablo and turned him over to the proper authorities.