Commodore True

"THE STATE CAPITAL 3 DECEMBER 1892 PUBLICATION LOCATION: SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS COLUMN NUMBER 2

Special Telegram
ATCHISON, KAN., NOV. 29 – Commodore True, a colored man, killed a man at Hiawatha last night and shortly afterward was lynched by a colored mob. True had been ejected from a Thanksgiving social given by the colored Methodists of the town, because he was raising a disturbance. He returned and fatally stabbed Will Walthall, the deacon who had ejected him. True was arrested, but was taken from jail and strung up to a tree. His body was riddled with bullets."

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For more information on Commodore True's lynching, see “Thy Brother’s Blood”: William Walthall, Commodore True, and a Thanksgiving Tragedy in Hiawatha by Bill Sroufe and Gary R. Entz. and Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss, November 29, 1892: Commodore True