Newt Hayden
Newt Hayden, a Black man, was in the custody of the Newton County sheriff on June 29, 1894, while being taken by train toward the county jail at Carthage. According to an Associated Press dispatch printed in The Herald, a mob stopped the southbound train, took him from the sheriff, and hanged him from a telegraph pole half a mile south of Monett, Missouri. The sheriff and Newt were on the train when the mob stopped it. The account was published the following day.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Herald's Associated Press dispatch reports that a mob took Newt Hayden from the Newton County sheriff and hanged him from a telegraph pole near Monett, Mo.
Reported by: The Herald (Associated Press dispatch, Monett, Mo.) (reporters).