Wesley Everest
Wesley Everest was a lumber worker and member of the Industrial Workers of the World who had returned from the war. The Daily Worker reports that he had a record of heroism in action and was a leader of the union members who defended the union hall in Centralia on Armistice Day weekend in 1919. He was held at the Centralia jail with other union members, and the paper says a group of businessmen took him from the jail that same night, mutilated him, hanged him and shot him. The paper says his body was placed in a grave whose location is still unknown.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Daily Worker reports that a group of businessmen took Wesley Everest from the Centralia jail on the night of the Armistice Day shootings, hanged him and shot him.
Reported by: The Daily Worker (reporters).