Sweet

Sweet, a Black man, was in the custody of officers near Gallatin, Tennessee, after a deadly quarrel at a home in the early hours of May 23, 1911. According to the Bismarck Daily Tribune, a posse captured him in a barn, and officers held him there. The paper reports that a mob then took him from the officers and lynched him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Sweet from the officers who had captured him in a barn near Gallatin, Tennessee, and lynched him.

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• Bismarck Daily Tribune, May 23, 1911, page 4 Bismarck Daily Tribune, May 23, 1911