From 1892, an example of an especially vicious lynching, and of the racist press that helped make it possible. Afterward, evidence came to light showing that Mrs. Jewell had in fact seduced the victim.
Fresno Weekly Republican / February 26, 1892
Horrible Fate of a Negro Ravisher.
THE VICTIM OF THE FOUL CRIME
Applies the Match and Thousands Watch the Brutal Wretch Cremate.
ST LOUIS, February 20. — The Republic’s special from Texarkana, Ark., says: Ed Coy, the negro fiend who last Saturday fiendishly assaulted Mrs. Henry Jewell, the wife of a respectable farmer living a few miles outside the city, this afternoon answered for his awful crime, being burned at the stake in the presence of 6000