Stanley Bearden
Stanley Bearden, a Black man, was held in the jail at Brookhaven, Mississippi, on the night of June 29, 1928, when a mob broke in. According to the Evening Star, the mob battered down the jail doors and cut through the cell bars with an acetylene torch. The mob took Stanley and his brother James from their cells and hanged them separately, and one of the two was dragged through town by a rope. Their bodies were found hanging from live oak trees beyond the city limits the next morning.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob battered down the Brookhaven jail doors, cut the cell bars with an acetylene torch and hanged Stanley Bearden and his brother James, according to the press account of the lynching.
Reported by: news reports.