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Ölvnir “The Ogre” by Miguel Iglesias https://www.artstation.com/artwork/L23B5A

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Garratt Locomotive 231+132 BT

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Four Men Hanged in Ada, Oklahoma
Four Men Hanged in Ada, Oklahoma
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This is a bit different from the usual content, but really fascinating in its own way. It’s the original newspaper article about a lynching of 4 western outlaws in 1909. The events are payed out with a lot of details, which is where the interesting things start to show up. The background is that Jim “Killer” Miller was hired to murder a ranch owner. The murder took place, but the people involved were apprehended and awaiting trial.


Protected territory

The lynch mob was not afraid of being recognized, only some wore masks. They attacked and threatened the Sheriff, telling him to stay inside for a half hour otherwise he’d be shot. The one man guarding him must have been known to the sheriff, but clearly they weren’t worried about repercussions. Armed groups operating in areas with support from the local population tend to rely on that support, rather than secrecy, for security.


Bad COMSEC (Telephone!) Links Gang

One of the men lynched, Burell, was believed to have been the go between who arranged the payoff. He was linked to the plot by two events:

  1. A telephone call from Killer Miller to Burell
  2. Killer Miller and Burell seen together in town

This lack of security (being seen in public) is a strange approach to plotting assassination, but I guess the conspirators weren’t concerned about OPSEC.


What I find most fascinating is that a telephone call (in 1909) was evidence to link the two men together. My guess is that the technology was so rare it attracted attention, and the method of making a call required providing a lot of personal information to get the right person on the line. This created a record of the two speaking over the phone. Before wiretaps, pen registers and IMSI catchers, phone calls were neither private nor secure.


Landlines connect places. Mobiles connect people. — Charles Stross


Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Lynching

The lynch mob was very well organized for a mob.

  • Advance scouts examined the location for the hanging. Ensuring it was unoccupied before the mob began their assault.
  • Two advance attackers got the sheriff and his deputy to surrender their jail key and stay out of the way. The sheriff got pistol whipped. This strikes me as implausible, as two men couldn’t overpower two lawmen, the sheriff recognize his assailants. I’d guess the sheriff was not particularly committed to protecting the murderers and just put up token resistance so it didn’t look like collusion.
  • The lynch mob targeted only the principals of the murder. There was a teenager who was paid to ID the target, he was spared. There were three other murderers in the same jail, not connected with the assassination, and they were spared. The was there to kill only those directly connected to the assassination.
  • They turned out the lights! An auxiliary mob assaulted the electrical supply company and forced them to turn off the street lights. This allowed the lynch mob to operate under cover of darkness. Clearly, the lynch mob had planned out the actions necessary to maximize protection against interruption and failure.
  • The lynching was not frenzied, it was as much as a lynching can be —professional. Jim Miller negotiated for his ring to go to his wife, that he got to wear his hat (both granted), and to wear his signature coat (denied.) He jumped off the box himself. One man struggled to avoid his hanging and the mob beat him into submission. The mob was reasonable with cooperating victims, but used violence to coerce uncooperative victims.
  • Jim Killer Miller was not a proponent of STFU OPSEC. The night of the murder, he returned a horse to the man he’d rented it from. He slept poorly, and in the morning when traveling to town, he told the guy that his cover story was false, confessed that he’d killed the rancher, and then threatened the guy “if you say anything it’ll go poorly for you.” True words, Killer Miller, true words.

Conclusion

It is amazing how lax everyone involved in this story is about security and secrecy. What is more amazing is the planning that went into the lynching, and the way that a telephone call (over 100 years ago!) was used as evidence.

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Atari Invasion by Francesco Saverio Gallista

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Jonathan Burton’s poster for Martin Scorsese’s Silence (2016).

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Nigel Kwan - 2017

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