Horse thieves, 3, 122, 128, 134, 163. Howe, Henry, 25, 26, 33. Idaho, lynch-law adopted, 180,184. Illinois, lynch-law adopted, 44, 45, 78, 180, 185, 188; compact entered into by Regulators, 83; mob violence, 110, 115; burning alive, 191; punishment of lynchers, 254. Illiteracy, study of with reference to the distribution of lynchings, 186 ff. Immigration, effect on practice of lynching, 186 ff. Indemnities paid by United States, 259. Indemnification of William Preston and others, 29; William Campbell and others, 72; Thomas Nelson, Jr., 73. Indiana, lynch-law adopted, 38, 77, 152, 180, 185, 188; anti-lynching laws, 241 ff.; Maxwell _v._ Dudley, 250. Indians lynched, 172. Cf. 41 ff., 44. 45. Indian Territory, lynch-law adopted, 180, 184. Informers tarred and feathered, 62 ff. Ingle, Edward, 75. Ingraham, J. H., 101, 227. Iowa, lynch-law adopted, 86 ff., 180, 184. Italians lynched, 172, 181, 228. Jacksonian period, 106 ff. Jameson, R. G., 61. Jamieson, John, 8. Japanese lynched, 172, 181. Jeddart justice, 8. Jelks, Governor, 263. Johnson, Joseph, 22, 56, 61. Johnson, William, 26. Judge Lynch, code of his honor, 82, 83, 102, 133. Kansas, lynch-law adopted, 134, 152, 180, 184, 245; burning alive, 191; anti-lynching law, 245. Keller, Albert G., 272. Kemble, Fanny, 201. Kentucky, lynch-law adopted, 38, 78, 88, 151, 179, 183, 188; damages for slaves illegally executed, 125; burning alive, 191, 264; anti-lynching law, 238 ff.; punishment of lynchers, 255, 264. Ku-Klux Klan 6, 139 ff. Lashing (see whipping). Latrobe, C. J., 83. Lawless, Judge, 109, 193. LeBon, Gustave, 275. Lee, Henry, 26. Legal executions compared with lynchings, 163. Legal remedies, efficacy of, 245, 251 ff, 277. LeRoy, James A., 202. Lester, J. C., 139. Levell, W. H., 274. Linch, 16. Linch’s Law, 39, 81. Lincoln, Abraham, on effects of mob law, 110 ff. Linn, W. A., 103. Lossing, Benson J., 24. Louisiana, lynch-law adopted, 117, 151, 179, 183, 188; slaves sentenced to death by planters, 126; burning alive, 191, 228. Lovejoy, Rev. E. P., 110, 115. Loyal League, 146. Lydford law, 7. Lyell, Sir Charles, 119. Lynch, dictionary definitions of, 9 ff.; etymology of, 16 ff.; use of word, 116. Lynch, Charles, 11, 23 ff. Lynch, John, 23, 35, 75. Lynch, James Fitzstephen, 13. Lynch, William, 73, 75. Lynchers, punishment of, 114 ff., 152, 254 ff., 265. Lynch’s Creek, South Carolina, 19 ff. Lynch Creek, North Carolina, 17. Lynching, practice peculiar to United States, 1 ff., 267 ff.; social conditions affecting, 2, 5, 277; similar to regulating, 46; definition of, 11, 135, 136, 186, 241, 276; manner of death by, 151, 152, 191; how justified in South, 224–226, 272, 273. Lynchings, reports of in newspapers, 159; distribution of by States, 182; distribution of by counties, 189.