Robert Clarke
Robert Clark, a Black man, was held in the Lucedale jail in Jackson County, Mississippi. Press accounts say that in the early morning of October 21, 1906, about 300 masked men took him from the jail after the guards had fallen asleep, and hanged him from a telegraph pole near the Lucedale depot. A coroner's jury found that he died at the end of an inch rope, and no member of the mob was identified. Earlier, a deputy sheriff had protected him from a mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A coroner's jury returned a verdict that he died at the end of an inch rope after about 300 masked men took him from the Lucedale jail after the guards fell asleep, and no member of the mob was identified.
Reported by: coroner's jury (medical examiner or coroner).