# Kiowa lynching (Aug. 25, 1874)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa-lynching-aug-25-1874/
- Also known as: four accused horse thieves hanged
- Kind: Murders, lynchings and killings
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Elbert County, Colorado
- Point: 39.35, -104.464 (from a cited description)

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Tip and Joshua Marion, Dick Thompson and Jerry Wilson, bound over for trial on horse-stealing charges, were taken from the sheriff at Middle Kiowa by about fifty masked men and hanged in pairs, still shackled (Rocky Mountain News, Aug. 27, 1874).

## Where it was

Placed just north of the Kiowa marker: the men were taken 'to a grove a mile from town'; the direction is not given.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Nearby

- [Kiowa](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kiowa/): 0.2 mi south
- [Dietemann killings (Aug. 27, 1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dietemann-killings-aug-27-1868/): 5.2 mi southeast
- [Elizabeth](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/elizabeth/): 7.1 mi west
- [Hargisville](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hargisville/): 7.8 mi northeast
- [Running Creek](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/running-creek/): 8.1 mi west
- [Orsburn](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/orsburn/): 9.6 mi northwest

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.