Klansmen at a Funeral and a Terrible Lynching

W. Paul Reeve and Jeffrey D. Nichols History Blazer, September 1995 On April 19, 1922, some 500 people gathered in Sandy to honor Gordon Stuart, a Salt Lake County deputy sheriff slain in the line of duty. Mourners were shocked, however, when the graveside ceremonies were interrupted by eight or nine Ku Klux Klansmen who appeared at the cemetery in …