Arkansas Mob Plans Lynching at Dawn

 
March 18, 1910, Lynching

March 18, 1910: The Times publishes a vivid story from Marion, Ark., about a white mob rampaging through town after two African Americans accused of staging a jailbreak allowing 12 black prisoners to escape – one of whom was accused of killing a white merchant.

 



March 18, 1910, Lynching

March 19, 1910, Lynching

One Internet resource, a digest of the Bullitt (Ky.) Pioneer, says the coroner determined that Austin/Austen and Richardson committed suicide.

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