Bob Coleman
Two Black men were held in the Charleston jail in Missouri on Sunday, July 3, 1910, and a mob took them from the jail that afternoon. The mob broke in and overpowered a deputy sheriff, and both men were hanged, one near the jail and one in the Black section of town, with their bodies riddled with bullets. Their names are not established in these accounts, though one paper names two men, Bob Coleman and Sam Fields, and reports they were hanged by a mob. The governor asked a circuit judge to call a special grand jury to investigate the killings.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob stormed the Charleston, Missouri jail, overpowered a deputy sheriff and hanged the men, according to the Hickman Courier and other accounts.
Reported by: The Hickman Courier (reporters); Charleston, Missouri newspaper accounts (reporters).