User:Mobyrock/workdesk/Omaha Charlie

Omaha Charley, whose legal name was Charles F. Stevens, was the next to hang, although without benefit of trial, on December 9, 1884, a Tuesday morning, at one o'clock in the morning. Omaha Charley had shot Hubert Kremey in Hilgert's saloon in Maryville on December 3, 1884. Feelings about the shooting ran high and locals considered the killing unjustified and decided to take matters into their own hands. News accounts of the time say that fifty masked men appeared before the jail and demanded Omaha Charley, at which time he was turned over to them. James Anderson was sheriff of the county at that time. The masked vigilantes took Omaha Charley to the East Fourth Street Bridge and hung him for the killing.

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Omaha Charlie, born Charles F. Stevens, was a convicted murderer who was lynched by a mob in Northwest Missouri on December 9, 1884.

Charles F. Stevens moved to Maryville, Missouri in 1876, claiming to have killed several men. In 1880, he added to his list by shooting and killing John Mahon, a Maryville native. For this murder he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 10 years in the Missouri Penitentiary.

While in prison, he happened on a chance to meet the daughter of Missouri Governor Thomas Theodore Crittenden. Stevens presented the daughter with several gifts, and she began to take an interest in him.