A Negro Rapist Who Richly Deserved his lynching

• John Davis

A MASKED MOB.
A NEGRO RAPIST WHO RICHLY DESERVED HIS LYNCHING.
The Perpetrator of Three Outrages Assaulted in the Presence of Her Little Boy
Judge Scott Grants a Supersedeas in the Anarchist Cases.
Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 25 — John Davis, a negro rapist, was lynched at Randolph, Ala., last night.
Davis was ther perpetrator of three outrages.
The last outrage was committed near Randolph on the 21st inst., on the person of Mrs. Curmpton, a white lady.
The victim had gone out a distance from her residence and was gathering up firewood.
She and her little boy, while picking up wood were suddenly sprung upon by two negroes from behind some bushes.
One of the negroes drew a pistol, cocked it, and placing it to her head said: “If you scream I will kill you.” at the same time telling the boy the same thing.
Davis was captured about 9 o’clock last night.
A mob of about fifty men overpowered the guard, took the prisoner out and hanged him to a coaling derrick.

“A Negro Rapist Who Richly Deserved his lynching.” The Leavenworth Standard (Leavenworth, KS), November 25, 1886.