Clyde Williams
Clyde Williams was being taken from Fawndale to Monroe, Louisiana, for court proceedings in the custody of a deputy sheriff. In April 1918, early one morning, about a dozen masked men seized him from the deputy at the McClain plantation, about ten miles south of Monroe, and hanged him from a tree. The deputy's conduct during the seizure is not described in the accounts. One dispatch places the killing on the outskirts of Fawndale, a location the garbled text leaves uncertain.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch reports that about a dozen masked men seized Clyde Williams from a deputy sheriff at McClain Plantation, about ten miles south of Monroe, while he was being taken to Monroe for trial, and hanged him.
Reported by: The Washington Times dispatch datelined New Orleans, La. (reporters).