Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson, a Black man, was held in the Bastrop jail in Louisiana. According to a Monroe dispatch printed in the Portland Daily Press, a mob took him and another Black man held there from the jail on the night of December 8, 1882, and hanged them.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Monroe dispatch (reporters).

Source

• The Portland Daily Press, December 9, 1882, page 1 The Portland Daily Press, December 9, 1882