John Hartfield
John Hartfield, a Black man, was held under guard in Dr. Carter's office in Ellisville, Mississippi, where he had been wounded. According to news dispatches quoted in a 1919 editorial, officers agreed to hand him over to a crowd of citizens, and he was burned to death. The editorial calls the killing murder and says the governor told it he had no troops to stop the mob. The editorial places the burning in Hattiesburg, while the dispatches place it in Ellisville.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. News dispatches quoted in an editorial say a mob took John Hartfield, who was wounded and under guard in a doctor's office, after officers agreed to turn him over, and burned him.
Reported by: news dispatches from the Jackson Daily News and New Orleans States, as quoted in an editorial (reporters).