Leonard Johnson
Leonard Johnson, a Black man, was being transported by Sheriff Norwood and a posse toward Rusk, Texas, on June 20, 1910, when a mob of more than 100 men and boys overpowered them at Lone Star. According to The Topeka State Journal, the mob took him a short distance from town, tied him to a stake and burned him to death while he pleaded for his life. A separate report in the Perth Amboy Evening News says he was taken from the sheriff in Rusk and burned that night, and that the sheriff said he could not recognize any member of the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of more than 100 men and boys overpowered Sheriff Norwood and a posse transporting him toward Rusk, took him a short distance from Lone Star, tied him to a stake and burned him to death.
Reported by: Sheriff Norwood (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.