One of 3 people whose names were not reported
Three Black people were held in the jail at Marshall, Missouri, in July 1859. According to a St. Louis dispatch, a mob of eight to nine hundred people broke into the jail, drove off the sheriff, deputies and jailers, and took the three people from it. One was burned and two were hanged. Reports place the killings on July 19 or July 24, 1859.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A St. Louis dispatch reprinted in the Daily Dispatch says a mob took a second Black person from the Marshall, Missouri jail and hanged them in July 1859, and an Arrow Rock correspondent says the mob drove the sheriff, deputies and jailors from their posts.
Reported by: St. Louis dispatch reprinted in the Daily Dispatch (reporters); St. Louis Bulletin dispatch (reporters); St. Louis dispatch printed in the Richmond Enquirer (reporters); unnamed correspondent of the Arrow Rock dispatch (reporters).