David Boone
David Boone was held in the Morganton jail in Burke County, North Carolina. In the early morning of September 11, 1889, about a hundred masked men came to the jail and demanded the keys, and when the keys were refused they broke open his cell door with crowbars and heavy hammers. Accounts say they bound him, took him to a railroad bridge and hanged him with the same rope as Frank Stack, another man held there. The coroner's inquest found that he died at the hands of persons unknown, and a 1914 Monroe Journal account reported that the two men lynched were innocent.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about one hundred men broke into the Morganton jail, took David Boone from his cell and hanged him from a railroad bridge; a coroner's inquest found he died at the hands of persons unknown.
Reported by: The Daily Times, citing a Charlotte dispatch (reporters); Burke County coroner's inquest (medical examiner or coroner); The Monroe Journal, drawing on Charlotte newspaper accounts (reporters).
News reports (8)
- Fort Worth Daily Gazette, September 12, 1889, page 2
- The Daily Times, September 12, 1889, page 1
- The Daily Citizen, September 12, 1889, page 1
- The Charlotte Democrat, September 13, 1889, page 3
- The Russellville Democrat, September 19, 1889, page 1
- Shenandoah Herald, September 20, 1889, page 1
- The Grenada Sentinel, September 21, 1889, page 2
- The Monroe Journal, June 9, 1914, page 5