Robert Beasley
Robert Beasley was held in the county jail in Vicksburg, Mississippi, awaiting a hearing, when the Narragansett Herald reported that a mob took him from the officers in charge of him. The paper said the hearing had been waived and he had been ordered back to jail, and that the mob, numbering about fifty people, seized him as a constable was about to board a train with him. They hanged him from a telegraph pole. The paper's account does not describe how the constable responded to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Narragansett Herald reported that a mob of about fifty people took Beasley from officers as they were about to board a train and hanged him from a telegraph pole.
Reported by: Narragansett Herald (reporters).