Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1906 — Victim Sees Negro Hanged. [ARTICLE]

Victim Sees Negro Hanged.

Poplar Bluff, Mo., March 26. —Curtis Jackson, a 17-year-old negro boy, was hanged for an assault on a white wo’hian. Dean Norman, husband of the injured woman, sprang the trap and Mrs. Norman herself witnessed the execution. The crime was committed February 2, and the next day the negro was saved from lynching only because the sheriff ordered the arrest of the woman’s husband, who led the mob.