Lynch-Law Supreme!
March 21, 1906
Summary
A “blood thirsty” mob brutally “roasts” two black men to death due to the assumption of assault.
Transcription
Lynch-Law Supreme!
A terrible Display of Barbarity at Springfield, Missouri
Three Human Beings Roasted and Burned.
White Men Become FIends.
Blood Thirsty Mobs Roam the Streets-- Governor Folk Meets the Issue. Ringing Words from the Chief Executive.
Springfield, Mo., April, 14, -- A mob of 3,000 men tonight took two colored men, Horace Duncan and Jim Copeland, from the county jail, hanged them to the Goddess of LIberty on the court house and built a fire under them and roasted them to death. The men were charged with assaulting Miss Mabel Edwards.
Miss Edwards came here recently from Monett, Mo., and obtained employment as a domestic. Last night while Miss Edwards and a young man were riding in a buggy they were stopped by two colored men, who beat the young man, named Cooper, into unconsciousness and dragged Miss Edwards into the woods by the roadside. Duncan and Copeland were arrested on suspicion, but there was little evidence against them.
A terrible Display of Barbarity at Springfield, Missouri
Three Human Beings Roasted and Burned.
White Men Become FIends.
Blood Thirsty Mobs Roam the Streets-- Governor Folk Meets the Issue. Ringing Words from the Chief Executive.
Springfield, Mo., April, 14, -- A mob of 3,000 men tonight took two colored men, Horace Duncan and Jim Copeland, from the county jail, hanged them to the Goddess of LIberty on the court house and built a fire under them and roasted them to death. The men were charged with assaulting Miss Mabel Edwards.
Miss Edwards came here recently from Monett, Mo., and obtained employment as a domestic. Last night while Miss Edwards and a young man were riding in a buggy they were stopped by two colored men, who beat the young man, named Cooper, into unconsciousness and dragged Miss Edwards into the woods by the roadside. Duncan and Copeland were arrested on suspicion, but there was little evidence against them.
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Upper Right Quadrant
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Emma Roberts
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“Lynch-Law Supreme!,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 12, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/408.