"An Oct. 7 re-enactment of a public hanging that took place before a crowd of 5,000 spectators in Mineral Point in 1842 has been postponed, leaving only a ghost of a chance the idea will be resurrected in the spring."

"...Local writer Paula vW. Dail and Gayle Bull, owner of the antiquarian-rare-book Foundry Bookstore, hatched the idea more than a year ago, hoping to exploit the death-by-hanging sentence carried out on William Caffee, convicted of murder in 1842 by a territorial court jury."

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