In the early morning of June 2, 1895, Houston Osborne, a young African-American man, broke into Frieda Kachel's bedroom in her St. Paul home. When Kachel screamed, Osborne ran; he was caught and hanged from a cottonwood tree but let down while he was still alive. He died in prison eighteen months later. Osborne was […]
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