Jim Miller killed 20 to 40 men— depending on the source—during his lifetime. The year after the Garrett affair, he killed a man named Gus Bobbitt near Ada, Oklahoma, and was shortly arrested for the crime; On the day that Wayne Brazel was acquitted, April 19,1909, a lynch-mob took Jim Miller and his three cohorts into a barn in Ada and hanged them one at a time. Legend held that Miller admitted killing Garrett just before he was strung-up. A member of the mob denied that Miller said anything of the sort