5 Lynched in Louisiana

Posted on July 22, 2009 by lmharnisch
July 22, 1899, Lynching
July 22, 1899, Tallulah, La.: "When he got to the courthouse square, a crowd of about two hundred and fifty citizens overpowered the sheriff and, after a severe struggle, took Joe and Charles Defatta down to the slaughter pen and hanged them to the gallows used for slaughtering beeves."

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