The Bisbee Massacre of 1883

In 1883, during a botched bank robbery (a local store that acted as a bank), six outlaws in Bisbee, Arizona Territory, killed four people, including a lawman and a pregnant woman. A court convicted five of the 6 gunmen (Dan "Big Dan" Dowd, William E. "Billy" Delaney, Daniel "York" Kelley, James "Tex" Howard, and Omer W. "Red" Sample) and sentenced them to hang, while organizer John Heath drew life in prison. Angered that Heath wasn't sentenced to hang, an armed mob broke into the jail he was held in, dragged Heath out, and lynched him from a telegraph pole. The other five convicted killers were legally hanged in 1884.

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