English
Holland English was held in the jail at Bakersville, Mitchell County, North Carolina. On the morning of Sunday, April 1, 1894, a crowd of about two hundred people took him from the jail and hanged him, reportedly with a flax hank, according to a news dispatch from Marion, North Carolina, and a Winston dispatch that gave the same crowd size. The Oxford Eagle reported that talk of lynching had died down after he was first held and that the sheriff had stopped fearing an attempt. The Marion dispatch said local citizens commended the action and that no arrests would be made.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of about 200 took Holland English from the Bakersville jail and hanged him with a flax hank, and a news dispatch from Marion says local citizens commended the action.
Reported by: news dispatch from Marion, North Carolina (reporters); news dispatch from Winston, N.C. (reporters).