George Banks
George Banks, 27, was held in the county jail at Lewisburg, West Virginia. In the early hours of Friday, December 11, 1931, a mob of about 60 men came for him and another man, and jailer Wallace Flint opened the cell door and gave the mob leader his keys after they indicated which cell held the men. The mob drove Banks to a telephone pole on the Midland Trail, hanged him, and then shot him. The Atlanta World reported the killing as a lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 60 men took George Banks from the Lewisburg, West Virginia, county jail, and jailer Wallace Flint surrendered his keys to the mob leader; the mob hanged him from a telephone pole and then shot him.
Reported by: Wallace Flint, jailer at the Lewisburg county jail (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.