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Last weekend about 500 people attended a premiere of the North Dakota film “End of the Rope” at Oak Park in Minot, according to the film’s producer Daniel
The move is based on the mob lynching of Charles Bannon in western North Dakota. Bannon was a serial murderer who once worked as a hired hand for the Haven family, whom he killed on their farm in 1931.
Today is another story of the young preacher called from seminary in St. Louis to McKenzie County a century ago. For 10 months, the Rev. Richard C. Jahn preached in English and German, and baptized, confirmed, and buried residents. He lodged with a bachelor homesteader in a cabin east of Watford City. At age 21, Jahn attended a dying person for the first time, a man mangled by wolves.
eogden@minotdailynews.com Submitted Photo Dennis Johnson, of Watford City, is helping with the script for a movie to be filmed in McKenzie County about the last lynching in North Dakota. Johnson first published a book in 2005 about the incident in McKenzie County occurring in the early 1930s. WATFORD CITY – Nearly 89 years ago during the early morning hours of Jan. 29, 1931, a group of vigilantes stormed the jail at Schafer, then the McKenzie County seat a few miles” east of Watford City, knocked down the door, grabbed mass murderer Charles Bannon and, in finality, hanged him at Cherry Cr...