Evins

Evins was taken from two officers by a mob at Center, Texas, on May 21, 1928, and hanged from a tree in the courthouse yard, according to a 1929 report in the Omaha Monitor citing the New York Evening Post. The report says the lynching took place in the same yard where another man had been lynched about five years earlier.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The New York Evening Post reported that a mob took Evins from two officers at Center, Texas, and hanged him from a tree in the court house yard.

Reported by: New York Evening Post (reporters).

Source

• Omaha Monitor, January 11, 1929, page 1 Omaha Monitor, January 11, 1929