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FORMER FRANKLIN COUNTIAN HANGED IN
WYOMING ["Ottawa Evening Herald," 28 Sep 1903, page 1, column 6] Saturday's dispatches announced the hanging at Langer, Wyoming, of James Keffer, for the merder of William Warren, for robbery. Keffer sang and joked with the guards until he was taken to the scaffold. The dispatches announced that he was born in Franklin county, Kansas, in 1864. None of the old timers here know him. Governor Elder never heard of him nor did Judge Robbins. The latter thinks Keffer may have belonged to the crowd of refugees who came up here from Arkansas and southwest Missouri when the war broke out. ["Ottawa Evening Herald," 29 Sep 1903, page 1, column 4] It was stated yesterday that no one could be found in Ottawa who had ever heard of the man Keffer, who was hanged in Wyoming for murder last week and who, according to dispatches was born in Franklin county. It is learned that a family named Keffer, or Keifer, came up from Missouri when the war broke out and settled in the timber east of Rantoul. The family lived there a number of years and it is remembered that there were several boys in the family.
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