Harrison Mickey
Harrison Mickey, a Black man, was held in the Glasgow, Missouri jail in August 1884. In the early hours of August 3 or 4, a mob came to the jail and demanded the keys from the jailer, who refused to hand them over. The mob broke down the jail door, took Mickey out and hanged him from a tree just outside town. Accounts differ on the size of the crowd, which one paper put at several dozen and another at 75 to 100 people.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch from Glasgow, Missouri, reported in the St. Louis dispatch says a mob took Harrison Mickey from the Glasgow jail and hanged him from a tree outside town after the jailer refused to give up the keys.
Reported by: St. Louis dispatch (dispatch from Glasgow, Missouri) (reporters).