Volume 16 , Issue 11

1914 Negro Woman Lynched By Oklahoma Mob

In The Evening World, New York, NY, 31 March 1914, front page headlines, we find this disturbing headline: Negro Woman Lynched By Oklahoma Mob. She was hanged from a telephone cable by masked men for having stabbed a white man.

As it was reported in Muskogee, Oklahoma, 31 March 1914, Marie Scott, a negro woman, who Sunday night killed Lemuel Peace, a young white man, by driving a knife into his heart, was taken out of the Wagoner County jail aryl morning and hanged to a telephone pole. The mob, which was masked, overpowered the jailer, a one armed man, threw a rope over the woman's head and dragged her out of the jail.

A knock at the jail door aroused the sleeping jailer, alone in the office. A voice outside said an officer was there with prisoners. The jailer opened the door and faced twelve revolvers. He was bound quickly and his keys taken from him. He then was thrown in the corner.

The mob pulled the screaming woman from her cell, tied a rope about her neck and dragged her to a telephone pole, a block front he jail. An hour later the Sheriff cut down the dead body. The County Attorney had started an investigation of the lynching.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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