Culbert Harris

Culberth Harris was a Black man held at the Pine Bluff jail in Arkansas. On Sunday night, February 14, 1892, a mob broke into the jail and took him, according to the Oskaloosa Herald, which reported that he was shot and that his body was then hung from a telegraph pole in front of the courthouse, in view of a crowd. The Los Angeles Herald reported that the crowd had named him after John Kelly was lynched that same night. The two papers differ in their accounts of how he was killed, with one describing gunfire and the other a body hung in the air and shot many times.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob broke into the Pine Bluff jail, and the newspaper report says other prisoners pointed him out before the crowd took him and killed him with gunfire and hanged him.

Reported by: news reports.

Sources (3)

• Los Angeles Herald, February 15, 1892, page 5 Los Angeles Herald, February 15, 1892
• The Oskaloosa Herald, February 18, 1892, page 4 The Oskaloosa Herald, February 18, 1892
• The Grenada Sentinel, February 20, 1892, page 2 The Grenada Sentinel, February 20, 1892