Issiah Edwards

Issiah Edwards, a 19-year-old Black man, was held in the Conroe jail in Texas. A United Press dispatch published in The Indianapolis Times reports that a mob took him from the jail on Saturday night, December 19, 1931, and that his body was later found in a prairie south of Mont Belvieu in Chambers County, shot to death. The dispatch attributes his killing to a lynching party.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A United Press dispatch reports that a lynching party took Issiah Edwards from the Conroe jail and that his body was found shot to death in a prairie south of Mont Belvieu.

Reported by: United Press dispatch (reporters).

Source

• The Indianapolis Times, December 21, 1931, page 3 The Indianapolis Times, December 21, 1931