Henry Wall
Henry Wall, 21, was in the custody of officers near Friends Mission, Virginia, in early September 1897, according to a Raleigh News and Observer dispatch from Mount Airy, North Carolina. The News and Observer reported that a crowd took him from the officers and lynched him, and a Mount Airy correspondent's account describes an unknown mob doing the same near the scene of a killing in Patrick County. The sources give the date as September 5 or 6, and they do not say whether the officers resisted, gave up their keys or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Raleigh News and Observer, citing a special from Mount Airy, N.C. (reporters); Telegram reprinted from the News and Observer, with a Mount Airy correspondent's account (reporters); Newse and Observer special dispatch from Mount Airy, N.C., reprinted in The Herald (reporters); brief special dispatch reporting seizure by unknown people.