sentences:  Following a short manhunt through several states, he was captured by a local posse near Big Lick in 1892.Shortly after his capture and incarceration a mob of angry citizens gathered at the jail to demand Whitley be turned over to them.Sheriff Snuggs had been alerted to the mob's intention and he transferred all the prisoners from the jail to his own home across the street—except Whitley, who was seized by the mob, beaten, and hanged from a tree off South Street in Albemarle.