Abe Halley
Abe Dalley was one of five Black men held by guards in De Witt, Arkansas County, Arkansas, on March 24, 1904. According to a dispatch to the Arkansas Gazette, a crowd of masked men took the five men from the guards and shot them to death. The dispatch described these killings as the ninth killing of Black people within a week. A dispatch printed in The Indianapolis Journal reported the same killings in Arkansas and linked them to racial violence at St. Charles.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch printed in The Indianapolis Journal says a crowd took five Black men from guards in DeWitt, Arkansas, and shot them to death; an Arkansas Gazette dispatch says masked men took them from guards and shot them.
Reported by: Dispatch from DeWitt, Ark., printed in The Indianapolis Journal (reporters); Arkansas Gazette special dispatch (reporters).