Duluth lynchings In September 1918, a group calling itself the Knights of Liberty dragged Finnish immigrant Olli Kinkkonen from his boarding house, tarred and feathered him, and lynched him. Kinkkonen had not wanted to fight in World War I and instead planned to return to Finland. His body was found two weeks later hanging in a tree in Duluth's Lester Park.
Duluth lynchings In September 1918, a group calling itself the Knights of Liberty dragged Finnish immigrant Olli Kinkkonen from his boarding house, ta.rred and feathered him, and lynched him. Kinkkonen had not wanted to fight in World War I and instead planned to return to Finland His body was found two weeks later hanging in a tree in Duluth's Lester Park.