Louisiana. The fellow took fright, was followed and finally climbed a magnolia tree…. One of the pursuers went for a rope. Presently, the man deliberately slid down out of the tree, and halfway down he was shot to death. The man's clothing marked No. 43 was found to be that worn at the State Insane Asylum in a neighboring town. The insane occupant had escaped a few days before, and the helpless fellow, wandering at large, had suffered death for a crime he had not committed.²⁹

Two innocent negroes had been shot previous to this by a posse looking for Holbert, because one of them who resembled Holbert, refused to surrender when ordered to do so.

Tennessee. Ed. Johnson, a Negro, convicted of rape and sentenced to be hanged, was granted an appeal by the Supreme Court of the United States. Johnson was in jail at Chattanooga…. A mob hanged him.

South Carolina. The mob was led by Joshua W. Ashleigh, a local member of the State Legislature, while Victor B. Cheshire, editor of a local newspaper, after taking part in the lynching got out a special edition telling about it…. The then Governor, Cole Blease, absolutely refused to use the power of his office to bring the lynchers to justice, and the Coroner's jury found that the Negro came to his death “at the hands of parties unknown.”³⁰

Oklahoma. Marie Scott, a 17-year-old Negro girl, was lynched because her brother had killed one of two white men who had assaulted her. She was alone in the house when the men entered, but her screams brought her brother to her rescue … one of the white men was killed. The next day the mob came to lynch her brother, but as he had escaped, lynched the girl instead. No one was ever indicted for the crime.

Georgia. At Jackson, Henry Ethridge was lynched, April 26, 1912, for being active in securing recruits for

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