Wiley Douglass

Wiley Douglass, a Black man, was in the custody of a deputy sheriff in Arkansas in August 1897 as the officer's party was taking him toward the jail at Rison. The account says a mob took him from the officers near Anderson and hanged him from a bridge. It describes the mob taking him from the officers, and it does not describe any resistance by them. Douglass was one of two men the deputy had taken after an incident at a dance at Kendall.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Wiley Douglass from the officers escorting him to jail near Anderson, Arkansas, and hanged him from a bridge, according to the newspaper account.

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• Worcester Morning Daily Spy, August 25, 1897, page 3 Worcester Morning Daily Spy, August 25, 1897