Jonathan Jack Basham

Jonathan J. (Jack) Basham was shot and killed by a band of vigilantes consisting of "Bill Penn of the mountains", Bill Looney, Perry Cummings, Sam Blackburn and Sam Swann. The story goes that one of the five avengers wore a battered uniform and a hat with a hole in it, while Jack Basham wore a new hat. In his anger the soldier swapped hats with Basham saying, "That hat is good enough for you to go to Hell in!" Each of the five men carried a gun. The soldier unloaded two of the guns, mixed them all together, so no man knew who held the loaded guns. Young Basham was placed at a distance, and at a given signal all men pulled the triggers, and no one knew which of the five men killed Jack.