People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — A MOB HANGS A NEGRO. [ARTICLE]

A MOB HANGS A NEGRO.

Ben Jackson, Who Poisoned Several People, Taken from Jail and Lynched. Quincy, Mass., Sept. 11.—Shortly after midnight Thursday a mob numbering several hundred appeared at the jail, took Ben Jackson (colored) to a tree near by and swung him to a limb, after which the body was perforated with bullets. The crime for which Jackson was lynched was the poisoning of the families of Thomas Woodrough and his two sons, numbering twenty-five people, from the effects of which two of them died and two others are at death’s door. Jackson placed three packages of rat poison in Woodrough’s well and when the members of the family drank the water all of them were taken violently ill, two dying before a physician could be summoned.