Leo Slatter

Lee Slater, a Black man, was held in the jail at Monroe, North Carolina. According to The National Tribune, on a Wednesday morning in March 1885 a crowd of citizens broke into the jail, took him out and hanged him from a tree in the town's suburbs. The paper does not say whether jail staff resisted the crowd or handed him over. The Wessington Springs Herald and The True Northerner report a mob taking a man from the Monroe jail and hanging him in the same month, under the spelling Lee Slatter or Leo Slatter.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Sources (3)

• The National Tribune, March 12, 1885, page 12 The National Tribune, March 12, 1885
• Wessington Springs Herald, March 27, 1885, page 2 Wessington Springs Herald, March 27, 1885
• The True Northerner, December 31, 1885, page 2 The True Northerner, December 31, 1885