Four Colored Men Lynched in Louisianna

Four black men are lynched after being accused of murdering a white man in Louisiana.

A Vicksburg special says: for Negroes have already paid the penalty for the brutal assassination of Manager Boyce, of Baunoce Plankdon, in Madison parish, Saturday, and it is not Unlikely several more will have summary Justice dealt out to them. One negro was shot Saturday night. The mob gathered at the jail last night and took out Sam Slaughter, Tom Claxton, Dave Hawkinsand swung them up to the banister of the courthouse till dead.

“Four Colored Men Lynched in Louisianna,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1556.