Executed
Name not reported
According to Mayor Judge E. S. Aston, as reported by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and reprinted in the Bridgeton Pioneer in June 1891, four men from a colored regiment stationed near Asheville were held in the county jail. The account says they were taken from their cells the next morning, seated on rough coffins, and shot by a firing squad of soldiers before a large crowd. It says a burial service was read and the four were buried immediately, two to a box.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state. Judge E. S. Aston, the mayor at the time, said the four men were shot by a firing squad of soldiers.
Reported by: Judge E. S. Aston, mayor at the time, as reported by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.