Harry Gates
Chas. Salyers and Harry Gates were held in the jail at Lexington, Missouri, when a masked mob took them out and hanged them, according to The Osceola Times, which reported it on August 23, 1902. Harry Gates was Black. A second report in the Crittenden Press, dated August 28, 1902, describes a masked mob taking one of two men from the Lexington jail and hanging him. Both accounts describe the killings as the work of a mob that took men from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The newspaper report says a masked mob took Chas. Salyers and Harry Gates from the Lexington, Missouri jail and hanged them, without saying whether jail staff resisted.
Reported by: newspaper report (Lexington, Mo., historical account) (reporters).