Charles Richardson

Charles Richardson, a Black man, was held at the Marion jail in Crittenden County, Arkansas, when a mob took him from the jail in March 1910 and killed him. The Forrest City Times reported that the men forcibly took the jail keys from a deputy sheriff downtown and hanged him from a tree in the jail yard, while the Pocahontas Star Herald said the mob overpowered the deputy after the sheriff had left and lynched him in the courthouse yard. The accounts differ on the date, most giving March 18 and one giving March 24, and on the size of the mob, which was put at up to 50 men in one paper and about 300 in another. A Memphis dispatch placed the killing at the Memphis jail, a detail the other reports do not support.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News reports (3)

• The Paducah Evening Sun, March 18, 1910, page 1 The Paducah Evening Sun, March 18, 1910
• Pocahontas Star Herald, March 25, 1910, page 3 Pocahontas Star Herald, March 25, 1910
• The Forrest City Times, March 25, 1910, page 1 The Forrest City Times, March 25, 1910