Kinston, N.C. (1869)
Before 2/2/1869: Five men, one white, four black had been
jailed for stealing the body of a Colonel Williams from his grave to location
and for purposes unknown. A mob of 20-30
men used a subterfuge to introduce an armed, and supposedly bound captive into
the jail, where he forced the jailer to turn over the five accused men, who
were apparently killed by cutting their throats and thrown into the Nense
River.
Category: lynching
Suicide: no
Cause: impatience
Weapon: cutting instrument[1]
[1] “The
Ku Klux in North Carolina,” [Columbia, S.C.] Daily Phoenix, Feb. 2, 1869, 2.
Why would you steal a body, except for a medical school or to hold it for ransom (as was attempted with Lincoln's body).
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