Edwin Moore

Edwin Moore, a Black man, was held in a jail in northeast Missouri, according to a special dispatch to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reprinted in the Lexington Weekly Intelligencer on October 2, 1875. The dispatch says a mob took him out of the jail and hanged him. It does not say whether jail staff resisted the mob or gave up the keys.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Globe-Democrat dispatch from Kirksville, Mo., reports that a mob took Edwin Moore from a northeast Missouri jail and hanged him.

Reported by: Globe-Democrat special dispatch from Kirksville, Mo. (as reprinted) (reporters).

Source

• Lexington Weekly Intelligencer, October 2, 1875, page 2 Lexington Weekly Intelligencer, October 2, 1875