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A sheriff who was dragged from his house and lynched; the only evidence of his alleged crimes was in an account written by a lynch mob member to justify lynching; 130 years later Plummer was posthumously tried; the jury reached a split decision (six to six) and a mistrial was declared. [31] Clubfoot George: Nevada City: Madison: Montana Territory
Sheriff Wright said that the mob was "unexpected," and that while he pleaded with the mob "to let the law take its course." [1] Deputy Sheriff Hugh Curtis stated the lynching took place in a "quickly, quietly and orderly" fashion. [39] The mob was also reported to be "highly organized" and was said to have executed the lynchings "in a jiffy."
The Victims of Southern Mob Violence (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). ISBN 978-1-4696-2087-9. Cameron, James. A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story, (Black Classics Press, 1982/reprint 1994). Carr, Cynthia, Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America, (Random House, 2007). Madison, James.
A permanent exhibit at the Chatham Community Library is home to six jars of soil collected from each of the known sites where people were killed between 1885 and 1921.
The sheriff was transporting Gunn by car, and he drove directly into the mob. When he opened the door, the sheriff was pulled aside and Gunn was dragged out of the car. Witnesses later said the mob leader told the sheriff, "Either you move out of the way or die with this man, either way he's going to die today."
Over 10,000 spectators, including city officials and police, gathered to watch the attack. There was a celebratory atmosphere among whites at the spectacle of the murder, and many children attended during their lunch hour. Members of the mob cut off his fingers and hung him over a bonfire after saturating him with coal oil. He was repeatedly ...
That night, the relentless mob decided they needed to drive Crawford's children and their families from the area. A consortium of white businessmen, Jack Perrin, J. Allen Smith and J. S. Stark, worrying about the economic effect of such a decision, opposed these decisions and was able to convince the mob arrange a meeting the following Monday ...
Byrd was the second of four children born in the family. He lived in the Black Lick district of Wythe County and was accused of rape and subsequently lynched by a mob on August 15, 1926. [1] [2] Byrd was kidnapped from the Wytheville jail by a mob of masked men, shot, bludgeoned, and dragged several miles before being hanged from a tree branch. [1]