Rodney, Texas July 5, 1910. A geographic spot a few miles southeast of Corsicana, which is southeast of Fort Wort,h there wasn’t much to attract anyone to this rural community of farms unless one was already employed there or lived there. Sadly for a young unknown Negro he got lost in the wrong part of the country.
The story reported to the papers of the day is the same stereotypical story of the times, an unknown Negro broke into the home of Hub Bailey, a local White merchant, who wasn’t home and tried to assault the man’s wife. In this case, the swerve in the story was that the White woman fought back and was able to get a razor away from her attacker even though he had cut her arm
Soon the alarm went out to the community, which was holding an Independence Day picnic, and all the men began to hunt this young Negro. They searched the Richland Creek area through some dense trees all day and night until finding him early Tuesday morning.
The mob was reported to bring back the Negro to the Bailey’s home where Mrs, Bailey identified him as the one who attacked her. The engaged mob immediately then pulled the young man to a nearby cottonwood tree and hung him. There was no law enforcement involved or courts and all that was reported was that no one knew the dead Negro or where he came from. The local news did take the time to report that peace had returned to the community after the vile crime.
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