B. H. Wyatt
B. H. Wyatt was a Black school teacher who had taught in St. Clair County for several years, and the Scranton Chronicle described him as fairly successful in his work. He was held in the Belleville jail in Illinois when a mob attacked the building, and according to the Scranton Chronicle the jailer and deputies turned back a first attack. A second attack succeeded, and the mob took him from the jail around midnight and hanged him. Accounts differ on where he was hanged, from a nearby tree or from a telephone pole in the public square, and on whether the date was June 6 or June 13, 1903.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took B. H. Wyatt from the Belleville jail and hanged him, after the jailer and deputies turned back a first attack.
Reported by: newspaper report.