Henry Gardner
Henry Gardner, a 22-year-old Black man, was held in the jail at Monroe, Louisiana, when about fifty men came for him in the early hours of March 15, 1907. According to the Associated Press, one of the group took the jailer's key at gunpoint, and Gardner was marched to the courthouse square and hanged from an oak tree. The Picayune reported that the keys were taken from a police officer at gunpoint and described the action as carefully planned. Gardner was taken from the custody of the jail and killed by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty men took Henry Gardner from the Monroe, Louisiana, jail in the early morning and hanged him in the courthouse square, after taking the jailer's keys at gunpoint.
Reported by: The Picayune, special dispatch from Monroe (reporters); Associated Press (reporters).