The rate of African-American lynchings steadily declined over the 1920s but did not disappear. Arkansas documents three such events during 1926. Bud Nelson was accused of murdering a white farmer named Ed Henderson in Jefferson County the last week of October after a dispute over some mules that culminated in Nelson shooting Henderson in the head with a Winchester rifle. He allegedly told a friend that he'd shot Henderson to teach him a lesson and then fled the area. A multi-state manhunt was started for Nelson and Arkansas governor Thomas Jefferson Terrall was about to offer a bounty for his capture when Nelson's bullet riddled body was discovered on November 1 in a field 15 miles south of Pine Bluff.



Nelson was found still clutching his Winchester in his hands. As some of the brush around him had been disturbed, it appeared some kind of struggle took place. None of the persons responsible were ever identified and newspapers reported the event as Nelson dying in a shootout with a white posse and not a lynching per se.



In May, Albert Blazes (Blades in some accounts) was accused of assaulting a white girl in Mississippi County. A group of schoolchildren were on an outing on May 26 when three girls got separated from their classmates. Blazes chased after the girls; two escaped but one tripped and he grabbed her. She yelled for help and he dropped her and fled. He was later arrested and denied any wrongdoing but one of the schoolteachers identified him. Police held Blazes temporarily in a warehouse with the intention of moving him to a safer location, but a mob arrived and demanded the prisoner. He was dragged away and reportedly mutilated and hanged.

This event was covered nationally in a Time Magazine story and made news as far away as Europe, where France's "La Petite Journal" covered the lynching of Blazes. The lynch mob was a huge one, numbering possibly as many as 1,000 people and a number of women were among its numbers.



On August 11, Charles Powell of Lafayette County was lynched for the murder of a sheriff's deputy. Powell was a railroad worker who was charged with domestic abuse for assaulting his wife. When Deputy James Dooley arrived to arrest him as he was at work in the railroad yard, Powell pulled a gun and shot at him. Dooley fired back but a second shot from Powell went through his chest, fatally wounding him. Powell bolted for Lafayette County. He was tracked down and caught in a thicket near Canfield. Fearing a lynching, the suspect begged the police to save him. Sheriff J.E. Barham and two deputies tried to get him to safety but a mob numbering possibly as many as 500 people caught up to them. Powell was hanged from a tree some miles south of Lewisville and shot multiple times. None of the mob were ever identified or prosecuted.

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>murderer who killed a guy in a trivial argument over livestock

>would-be child rapist

>wife beater who shot a cop when he tried to arrest him

Seems like all of these individuals deserved it. Don't you agree, LBJfag?
