Name not reported
An unidentified Black youth, about seventeen years old, was held by officers who were taking him toward Santa Fe, Illinois, according to a May 1903 newspaper dispatch datelined Thebes, Illinois. The report says a mob of farmers met the officers and took him from them despite the officers' attempts to disperse the crowd. The mob hanged him from an oak tree and then shot his body, the report says.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of farmers took the young man from officers who were transporting him toward Santa Fe, Illinois, hanged him from an oak tree and shot his body, according to a newspaper dispatch datelined Thebes, Ill.
Reported by: newspaper report of an Associated Press-style dispatch datelined Thebes, Ill. (reporters).