Bud Rowlands
Bud Rowland, a Black man, was held in the Spencer County jail at Rockport, Indiana. The Indianapolis Journal reported that on the evening of December 16, 1900, a crowd of about a thousand people broke into the jail with a sledgehammer and a telephone pole, took him to a tree in the courthouse yard, and hanged him. The sheriff said he could not have stopped the mob. The Barbour County Index reported that the mob overpowered the sheriff and his deputies, and that the sheriff refused to give up the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Bud Rowland from the Spencer County jail at Rockport, Indiana, and hanged him; the sheriff said he could not have stopped the mob, and other accounts say the sheriff and deputies were overpowered and that the sheriff refused to give up the keys.
Reported by: Spencer County Sheriff (the agency that held him); Indianapolis Journal (reporters); Wichita Daily Eagle (reporters); The Kalispell Bee (reporters).
Sources (7)
- Alexandria Gazette, December 17, 1900, page 2
- The Indianapolis Journal, December 17, 1900, page 1
- The Wichita Daily Eagle, December 18, 1900, page 4
- The Kalispell Bee, December 18, 1900, page 1
- Barbour County Index, December 26, 1900, page 1
- The Appeal, April 20, 1901, page 3
- Springfield Weekly Republican, July 17, 1903, page 2