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On December 16, 1900, Bud Rowland and Jim Henderson, two Black men, were arrested for the murder of a white barber, Hollie L. Simmons in Rockport, Indiana. He was reportedly jumped by two men and was bashed across the skull with a nail-covered club. [1] The news of the murder spread through town, and suspects were quickly identified that same ...
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930. J. Thomas Shipp and Abraham S. Smith were African-American boys who were murdered in a spectacle lynching by a group of thousands on August 7, 1930, in Marion, Indiana. They were taken from jail cells, beaten, and hanged from a tree in the county courthouse square.
A white officer refused to arrest the murderer, and instead arrested a black man who complained about it. [316] Robinson, Robert: African-American: Chicago: Cook: Illinois: 1919: He was black, and they wanted to kill a black: Robinson was an Army Reserve veteran. [317] Ashley, Bob: African-American: Dublin: Laurens: Georgia: 1919: Hoped to ...
Indiana authorities are investigating a report by a Black man who said he was pinned to a tree by a group of white men, an attack he likened to an “attempted lynching.”
Ronda Morrison, an 18-year-old white girl, was shot to death at a dry-cleaners in 1986. Walter McMillian, a black man, was arrested and immediately sent to Alabama's death row, where he was held for two years without having even been charged. McMillian was eventually charged in 1988 despite six witnesses placing him at a fish fry during the murder.
A white mob lynched George Johnson, Squire Taylor, and Charles Davis, all Black men, in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana, in 1871. [1] The three men were accused of killing the family of Cyprus Park, a farmer who lived near Henryville, Indiana. A neighbor near the Parks family believed that he was also a target but managed to keep the ...
After police arrested Dillard, they transported him to Sullivan. While being transported, a mob of approximately 50 local farmers gathered in the area, causing the Sullivan County sheriff, John S. Dudley, to invoke Indiana's 1899 anti-lynching law by requesting that Governor Winfield Durbin send in militia.
Belle Gunness. Belle Gunness, born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth (November 11, 1859 [3] – possibly April 28, 1908), nicknamed Hell's Belle, [1] was a Norwegian-American serial killer who was active in Illinois and Indiana between 1884 and 1908. [1] Gunness is thought to have killed at least 14 people (most of whom were men she enticed to ...