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Samuel Spicer Jr. would later be convicted of the murder of his wife, Nobie, and sentenced to life in prison. He was paroled in December 1929, but then fled. [332] Collins, J.C. about 34: African American: Mondak: Roosevelt: Montana: April 4, 1913: Murder of Sheridan County Sheriff Thomas Courtney and a deputized citizen: Hanged from a ...
While it is commonly believed that Fritz Klenner had both the means and the motive to commit the murders, it cannot be proven beyond a ballistics report that linked a bullet which was found at the scene of the Lynch killings to a gun that Klenner and Susie sold to a North Carolina gun dealer. [2] Susie's role in the murders still remains unknown.
Helen and Margaret Lynch's father, Patrick, was a salesman employed by the Donald Brush Company. In 1936, shortly after the girls' mother gave birth to their youngest sister Mary, the girls' mother was committed to the Grasslands Hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium.
In 1782, Charles Lynch wrote that his assistant had administered Lynch's law to Tories "for Dealing with the negroes &c". [10] Charles Lynch was a Virginia Quaker, [11]: 23ff planter, and Patriot who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War, occasionally imprisoning them for up to a year ...
People's Grocery, Memphis Tennessee, c. 1890. The People's Grocery lynchings of 1892 occurred on March 9, 1892, in Memphis, Tennessee, when black grocery owner Thomas Moss and two of his workers, Will Stewart and Calvin McDowell, were lynched by a white mob while in police custody.
The Moore's Ford lynchings, also known as the 1946 Georgia lynching, refers to the July 25, 1946, murders of four young African Americans by a mob of white men. Tradition says that the murders were committed on Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton and Oconee counties between Monroe and Watkinsville , but the four victims, two married couples, were ...
The NAACP and the state's Attorney General pressed to indict leaders of the lynch mob, but, as was typical in lynchings, no one was ever charged for their deaths, nor for the attack on Cameron. [2] Cameron was later convicted and sentenced as an accessory to murder before the fact. He served some time in prison, then pursued work and an education.
Chester Otto Weger (born March 3, 1939) [1] is an American man who was convicted in 1961 of the murder of one of three women found slain at Starved Rock State Park the previous year. He was held at Pinckneyville Correctional Center and at one time was the longest serving inmate incarcerated by the State of Illinois as well as the third longest ...