Explore The Map | Lynching In America ListenAudio stories from generations affected by lynching. Demecio killed Mrs. Soledad Zarrazino De Pino in a fit of jealous which led to him being hanged in Bernalillo County Jail, Murder of John C. Williams, Wife of the Deputy Chancery Clerk. After the lynching, another person confessed to the murder for which Arena and Venturella had been lynched. Henry Hays was sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair in 1997. Heflin recounted a story of how the library acquired photos of the hanging: A man walked in with an envelope marked "1937 flood and hanging" and handed the photos over, saying his family wanted to get rid of the images. Joel Woodson (?-1918). Jake Stafford was found dead two miles away from the road he was on; one of the main suspects of murdering Mr. Stafford was Mexican-American Salazar Santos. The national True Reformer organization was established in 1881 as a mutual aid society for Blacks. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 18691924, April 16, 1902, Image 2", "The Savannah morning news. Accused of murdering a white farmer's wife. He fell to the ground and again shot, but missed me. TRUXTILL, James white, rape, 10 Nov 1883, Whitley. Accusations of rape added to incite lynching. Resisting arrest; killing three citizens and wounding two, Deputy Sheriff William A Bergin was either mortally wounded by suspect. Body then dragged behind car and hanged, and fire lit under it. If you are already a subscriber, Register to activate your digital account. The Russellville lynching was no different, as a gruesome image of the four dangling bodies was soon made into a postcard. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53212 USA Duncan's and Coker's employer testified that they were at his business at the time of the crime against Edwards, and other evidence suggested that they and Allen were all innocent. A mob of masked men seized Padilla from the jail and chopped his body into pieces. Revealing lynching sites in North Carolina and South Carolina", "New Orleans Republican. A group of masked men had taken the two Mexicans during the night, hanging them to a beem in the jail yard. Taken by mob on way to jail, hanged and shot. Dragged from his jail cell and hung from a telegraph pole. Murdered by gun and ax an antisemitic murder. Many ancient pipes in CT aren't up to the task of draining storm water, yet officials just seem to shrug. The next morning, he took him to Bowling Green for safekeeping to await his trial. We want to use it for, hopefully, a healing process.. After seeing Scraggs, Thompson and Despano die, a fourth man after "a good deal of reluctance" avoided lynching by implicating five others, including Simpson's own son-in-law, though the son-in-law was "generally considered innocent.". Corpse was displayed in the Black community of Macon. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. No attempt to verify crime nor identify murderers: last known lynching in Brevard County, Lowman, Bertha, Lowman, Demon, Lowman, Clarence. "Vanished"; believed to have been killed because a white man coveted his successful saloon business. Frost, Elijah; Gibson, Abijah; McCracken, Tom, along with Berry Burrell, Joseph Allen, and Jesse West, along with Jim Miller, Joseph Allen, and Jesse West, along with Jim Miller, Berry Burrell, and Jesse West, along with Jim Miller, Berry Burrell, and Joseph Allen, McKinley "Snap" Curry, H. 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Five policemen fined $100 each for "nonfeasance of office". Either mistaken as or randomly targeted in place of another black teenager who was dating a local girl, Hawkins' murder became a major political issue during the, Rosenbaum, a student from Australia, was stabbed to death by a mob as part of the. Eventually, when his interest became known, stuff kept falling into my hands, such as newspaper clippings, family Bibles and accounts from surviving family members, he said. Tied to a tree and tortured with blowtorches to extract a confession. Alleged robbery of the residence of George Schievenent. Mob of 2,000 burned jail where he was held, then hung and shot him. Fred Sullivan and his wife May confessed after nooses were placed around their necks. The bill was a bipartisan effort. While being transported to the jailhouse, 4 men intercepted the 2 people taking Antonio and successfully lynched Antonio Gomez. They hanged him from a tree just outside the city limits at a point between the Rockwell House and the old Armstrong Hotel. Doused with kerosene and burned. That number puts Logan behind only Fulton County in the number of lynchings in the state, by some estimates. The museum opened in April and is the first national memorial specifically dedicated to the legacy of racial violence. State senator who worked to help freedmen, Johnson was held in protective custody at jail so he could testify against a prisoner in jail named Beavers. The masked men shot Bierfield five times. 2003 and 2016 books on this investigation. "She did a good job in the end," Thompson said. white, adultery, 29 Dec 1895, Marion, DICKERSON, Charles black, burglary, 4 May 1884, Boone, DUDLEY, James black, murder, 28 Aug 1891, Scott, ELLIS, George white, rape & murder, 3 June 1882, Boyd, EMBERTON, Bishop white, rape, 2 Aug 1882, Christian, FINLEY, George black, prejudice, 23 Dec 1896, Graves, FOSTER, James black, rape, 10 June 1888, Henderson, GADLY, Caleb black, attempted rape, 25 June 1894, Warren, GAINES, Caleb black, attempted rape, 16 June 1898, Barren, GAMBLE, M. G. black, rape, 21 Jan 1894, Whitley likely, GIBSON, Lige unknown race, murder, 27 Jan 1892, Owen, GILLESPIE, Bill black, murder, 5 July 1884, Nicholas, GILLAND, James unknown race, murder, 15 Sept 1891, Pulaski, GILLAND, Joe unknown race, murder, 16 Sept 1891, Pulaski, GOIN, Pleas white, murder, 14 Dec 1898 Bell, GOUGH, Leonard black, murderous assault, 28 Aug 1893, Henry, GRAINGER, Jobe black, threats, 24 July 1891, Simpson, GRIFFEY, Willis black, assault/rape, 14 Oct 1894, Christian, GRUELL, Dan white, swindler, 19 Mar 1890, Harrison, HAGGARD, Robert black, attempted rape, 16 July 1895, Clark, HARPER, Bob black, rape, 28 Dec 1892, Warren, HENDERSON, Dick black, cutting a while boy, 6 July 1884, Todd, HENDERSON, John black, murder, 21 Aug 1890, Woodford, HICKS, Wes white, burning a barn, 26 May 1885, Simpson, HILL, Charles black, rape, 9 June 1892, McCracken, HOWARD, Marion black, rape, 16 July 1894, Allen Co, HOWARDTON, John white, rape, 16 May 1895, Crittenden, HUMPHREYS, Ernest black, murder, 1 Oct 1890, Caldwell, JACKSON, Wm unknown race, murder, 10 Mar 1887, Pendleton, JONES, Doc black, murder, 19 Dec 1889, Daviess, JONES, Meredith black, rape, 28 Apr 1886, Logan, KELLY, James black, rape, 26 July 1889, Bourbon, KENNEDY, Claude black, attempted rape, 24 May 1895, Union, KILBURN, Henry white, murder, 9 Apr 884, possibly Breathitt, LAFERDETTA, Louis white, murder, 17 July 1894, Boone, LEWIS, Harrison black, murder, 26 Aug 1895, Washington, LUCAS, W J male, resisted a mob, 14 July 1884, Daviess, MARTIN, Edward unknown, arson and theft, 30 Oct 1894, Crittenden, MARTIN, Fount unknown race, barn burning, 15 Feb 1896, Wayne, MARTIN, John white, murder, 10 Dec 1884, Rowan, MAY, Richard black, attempted rape,14 July 1884, Daviess, MILLER, Seay J. black, rape, murder, 7 July 1892, Carlisle, MITCHELL, James black, rape, 16 June 1882, Montgomery, MITCHELL, Josh black, theft, 7 Jan 1894, Harrison, MORTON, Oscar unknown, murder, 14 Oct 1894, Lee, MORTON, Robert black, insulted a white woman, 4 Feb 1897, Warren, MURPHY, Logan unknown race, murder, 16 Aug 1892, Montgomery, NALLS, Gabe unknown race, arson and theft, 4 Nov 1894, Crittenden, NALLS, Ulysses unknown race, arson and theft, 4 Nov 1894, Crittenden, NARY, Eli black, burned barn, 15 Mar 1888, Fulton, NORTH, Alexander black, attempted rape, 22 Mar 1886, Logan, PETTY, Miles black, rape, 9 May 1884, Hardin, POOLE, Felix unknown race, rape, 1 Aug 1892, Ohio, PORTER, Austin white, murder, 6 June 1892, Carter, PRICE, Samuel white, murder, 27 Feb 1888, Hickman, PROCTER, Arch white, murder, 18 Dec 1896, Logan, PROCTER, Dink white, murder, 18 Dec 1896, Logan, PROCTER, Wm white, murder, 18 Dec 1896, Logan, PULLIAM, Sam black, rape, 20 July 1891, Anderson. Suspect killed Deputy Sheriff T Holmes while escaping from jail; lynched by posse. When the museum was being prepared for its 2008 opening, Morrow pushed to include a display about lynching. Investigators determined that he was burned a few weeks earlier. James Dennis was shot. The proceedings were covered by national newspapers, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Two white police officers interrogated the brothers and accused them of being outlaws. Their fate was decided on the courthouse steps by mock trial, because "the law was tedious, expensive, and uncertain." Taken from sheriff by 100 men and Lynched from Bridge over Beaver Creek; body recovered from river by Sherriff Deputies. Browder was wounded, Cunningham was dead. No indictment despite numerous witnesses. Last lynching in Maryland. Please press the "subscribe" button below and see our introductory price of $0.10 per week for 10 weeks. Taken from jail and lynched on telephone pole in railyard. DiFatta brothers (Francesco, Carlo, and Giuseppe); Sicilian immigrant grocery store owners, the DiFatta brothers, quarreled with a local doctor. The surrounding exhibits tell the story of numerous Logan County lynchings, with an emphasis on the quadruple 1908 lynching. The four bodies were cut down later that morning and put on display on the courthouse lawn. Around two o'clock in the morning on December 26, 1911, a mob broke into the unguarded jail where Johnson was kept. That was the observation of Bowling Green lawyer John Rhodes in 1944. He has had at least two documentary films made about his story. Three Mexicans were also caught near by skinning stolen beef which they tried to escape arrest but one of the Mexicans who did was fatally shot. "On the way to the scene of the burning, people on every hand took a hand in showing their feelings in the matter by striking the Negro with anything obtainable, some struck him with shovels, bricks, clubs and others stabbed him and cut him until when he was strung up his body was a solid color of red. It was Rhodes, writing to his daughter years later, who observed the ease with which lynch mobs formed in Logan County. Marshall was lynched in front of a crowd of 1,000. The allegation was based on the testimony of two young boys who said they saw a black man running from the scene of the crime. PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK. Murder of a farmer and his wife and rape of daughter, Murdered couple killed May 12, 1907; suspect was taken from law officers and lynched from a Bridge over creek and then shot. After a train wrecking that killed 3 people, the Americans began to hang or shoot Mexicans who they thought were involved in the wreck. Attempted murder of his employer's wife following a wage dispute. Struck in head with sledgehammer. By the time Bethea went to the gallows, most states had long since closed executions to the public and started using the electric chair because hangings were becoming "ghoulish public events" said Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor who studies the death penalty. Council has received apologies from the law enforcement agencies involved. Accused of getting into an altercation with a white man. Rape and murder of 19 year old white female, Lynchers said he "didn't deserve a trial". Scott was tortured for 3.5 hours and then burned alive by an angry mob on Sunday December 2, 1917. Later, Gov. Body parts for sale in a store. Logan County is also unusual in that it houses a powerful memorial to the legacy of lynchings. 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