Bandy Robinson

Bandy Robinson, a Black man, was held in the jail at Crockett, Texas, when about one hundred masked horsemen took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree on January 31, 1884, according to The Wellington Enterprise, which reported it on February 6. The account describes the mob as masked horsemen and the killing as a hanging from a tree. It does not say how the mob got into the jail or whether jail staff or officers resisted or gave up the keys.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• The Wellington Enterprise, February 6, 1884, page 1 The Wellington Enterprise, February 6, 1884