Arthur Jordan
Arthur Jordan, a Black man, was a married man and father, according to an editorial reprinted in The Weekly Louisianian. He was being held in the jail at Warrenton, Virginia, in January 1880, when, most accounts say, a mob took him from the jail in the early morning of January 19 and hanged him, in some accounts from a tree in a neighboring cemetery. The Weekly Louisianian's reprint of a French-language editorial says a local farmer, Mr. Corder, led a group that got into the prison under a pretext, demanded the jailer's keys, dragged Jordan from his cell and hanged him. One dispatch instead places the killing on the night of January 18 in Fauquier County, and the American reports name no one who took part.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Arthur Jordan from the Warrenton, Virginia, jail and hanged him, according to newspaper dispatches; the accounts do not say whether jail staff resisted or handed him over.
Reported by: Alexandria Gazette special dispatch (reporters); Richmond dispatch (reporters); Richland Beacon (reporters); Messager Franco-Americain editorial (reporters).
Sources (15)
- Evening Star, January 19, 1880, page 1
- Memphis Daily Appeal, January 20, 1880, page 2
- The Daily Clarion, January 20, 1880, page 1
- Sacramento Daily Record-Union, January 20, 1880, page 2
- Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, January 20, 1880, page 2
- The Cheyenne Daily Leader, January 20, 1880, page 1
- Shenandoah Herald, January 21, 1880, page 2
- Morning Appeal, January 21, 1880, page 2
- The Farmer And Mechanic, January 22, 1880, page 5
- Independent Statesman, January 22, 1880, page 4
- The Orangeburg Democrat, January 23, 1880, page 3
- Richland Beacon, January 24, 1880, page 2
- The Iola Register, January 30, 1880, page 6
- American Citizen, January 31, 1880, page 1
- The Weekly Louisianian, March 20, 1880, page 1