Name not reported

A Black man held in the jail at Carruthersville, Missouri, was taken from it by a mob and lynched on October 11, 1911. The Evening Bulletin and The Hawaiian Gazette both report that he was the second man the same mob took from that jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took a second Black man from the same Carruthersville jail and lynched him, according to a 1911 newspaper report that gives no name for him and does not say whether jail officers resisted.

Reported by: news reports.

Sources (2)

• Evening Bulletin, October 11, 1911, page 1 Evening Bulletin, October 11, 1911
• The Hawaiian Gazette, October 13, 1911, page 3 The Hawaiian Gazette, October 13, 1911