Hubert Barrier
Hubert Berrier was held in the Lexington jail in Lexington, North Carolina, in October 1889. According to a dispatch from Columbia, South Carolina, a masked mob came to the jail, and when the jailer refused to hand him over, they battered down the doors. The mob took him to an oak tree at the edge of town and hanged him. Witnesses told a later dispatch that a visitor prayed with him for more than three hours while the crowd waited, and that he spoke of hoping to see his wife and child in heaven. Before he died, he asked that his child be looked after.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch from Columbia, S.C. says a masked mob battered down the doors of the Lexington jail in North Carolina after the jailer refused to hand him over, then took him to an oak tree and hanged him.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch from Columbia, S.C. (reporters); Omaha Daily Bee (reprinting the dispatch) (reporters).