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(Caution) - This is a very detailed news article about the April 25, 1902, lynching of General Armstrong.
"Meet Me In Heaven" - - The Hanging of the Negro at Platte City Yesterday - Met Death With Courage - Took 16 Minutes to End the Life of Armstrong After the Drop Fell – Full Particulars of the Hanging”
At trial General Armstrong was found guilty of assault on 16-year-old white girl Iva Turney at Kearney, Missouri. It was alleged that Armstrong, who was herding cattle, rode up behind Turney, seized her by the hair, and dragged her to the ground. Armstrong denied his guilt to the last. Rev. J. F. Walker, pastor of the colored Methodist church at Platte City spent the day with Armstrong. Armstrong’s body was returned to his parents in Plattsburg, Missouri.
The jury was composed of W. C. White, Dr. W. J. Simpson, Dr. R. P. C. Wilson, Jr., Dr. Spence Redman, W. T. Jenkins, J. W. Murdock, A. H. O. Dowd, Dr. J. A. Baldwin, Dr. G. C. Coffey, H. L. Dillingham, George A. Stone, and David Chestnut.
The article also describes the 1853 hanging of Abe (a slave owned by Nathan Newby, hanged for the murder of another slave owned by Newby), the July 29, 1876, hanging of Ralph Williams for assaulting a white woman, and the June 14, 1881, hanging of another Black man in Weston, Missouri, for assault on a white women.Date(s) of Creation
4/26/1902