Ben Montgomery
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first heard Jul 2026
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And the mob would show up outside the jail.
demand the keys, the jailer would feign some kind of resistance and then turn over the keys, and the mob would take the accused and carry out vigilante justice, if you will, in the form of lynching, often in some public place, in some public way.
And Denning would have known that he had just, through his good fortune or the protection of this man, he had just escaped what would have been an attempt on his life by a lynch mob.
So Denning had no idea what was going on, but some of the men who had been there that night, the night before, some of the men who had even dressed Jody Kahn's wounds with whiskey and cotton had come back to his house the next morning.
And they had found, by the way, his 14-year-old son who had been staying with his grandmother and grandfather, that was Denning's mother and father.
The men abducted that boy and they basically held him and the rest of the family at their little home
for most of the day on Saturday, hoping that George Denning would return.
And when he didn't, when they learned that he had turned himself in to Sheriff Clark, they demanded that Molly and the children return
leave the county and leave the state, in fact.
Some of the testimony would later say they said, ride 50 miles and don't stop until you get at least 50 miles away.
They had two horses.
Molly loaded her children onto the two horses.
She walked.
They took what they could, a couple of feather beds.
And as they walked away...
The men set fire to the house and to any various outbuildings and to the fields.
They would have smelled the smoke.
And he was so worried about this that he armed some of the prisoners because that's how serious this was.
He wasn't about to let the lynch mob take his prisoner.
But they do realize they need to get George Denning somewhere even safer.
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