Henry Daily
Henry Daily, a Black man, was being held in the jail at Liberty, Missouri, in May 1900. On the night of May 16, according to a Mexico Missouri Message account published the next day, a mob of about seventy-five men broke open the jail door, took him from his cell, and hanged him from an iron bar on the south side of the courthouse. An eyewitness told the paper that he knelt at the top of the courthouse steps and prayed aloud, asking forgiveness for his sins and salvation for his soul. The account says he lived seven or eight minutes before the crowd left. Placards were left on his body.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of seventy-five men broke open the Liberty jail door, took Henry Daily from his cell and hanged him from an iron bar on the courthouse grounds.
Reported by: observer account in historical newspaper.