The lynching of Indiana’s Reno Gang.
December 12, 1868. Approximately 50 masked men travel from Seymour, Indiana to New Albany. They quickly capture the Floyd County Jail and force the sheriff to give up the keys to the cell area. Once inside, the vigilantes lynch four members of the Reno Gang, an organized crime outfit that terrorized southern Indiana for several years.
The ropes took the lives of Frank, Simeon and William Reno as well as their compatriot Charlie Anderson. The vigilantes then broke up and returned to Seymour in small groups.
None of the vigilantes was officially identified, and none were arrested.
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