Winston Pounds
Winston Pounds, a 20-year-old Black man, was being taken to jail in the custody of deputy sheriffs when a mob of about fifty armed men stopped the officers. The men covered the deputies with pistols and took Pounds from them. The mob hanged him from a tree about two miles from Wilmot, Arkansas. County officers investigating the lynching said the following day that the mob had killed him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty armed men stopped the deputies taking Pounds to jail, covered them with pistols, took him and hanged him from a tree near Wilmot, Arkansas, according to county officers investigating the killing.
Reported by: county officers investigating the lynching. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.