Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — Negroes Lynch a Murderer. [ARTICLE]

Negroes Lynch a Murderer.

The particulars of a sensational murder and lynching have just reached Shreveport, 1.a., from Herndon plantation, about eight miles below Shreveport, on the Bossier parish side of Red River. The most curious feature of the affair is that the men who did the lynching were negroes and strung up one of their own race. Frank Thomas, a negro, shot and killed a 14-year-old negro boy named Wilburn over a debt of 30 cents. A mob of 200 negroes and five or six white men took possession of Thomas and promptly strung him up to the limb of a tree.