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ONLY LYNCHING IN NEW JERSEY SINCE THE REVOLUTION
(LYNCHING.) Group of 3 documents relating to the lynching of Samuel Johnson, known as "Mingo Jack." Includes a manuscript of 3 pages on folio sheets detailing court rulings on the use of telegrams as evidence; a manuscript telegram on a Western Union Telegraph form asking all telegraph operators not to cooperate with the handing over of telegrams which might be used as evidence; and a typed court ruling ordering the operators to turn over incriminating telegrams. Monmouth County, NJ, 1886
- Notes: Angelina Herbert, a twenty-four year old woman was struck on the head and raped by an African-American male while walking near Eatontown, New Jersey. She identified the man as Mingo Jack, a sixty-six year old ex-jockey. Jack was brought to the local jail, but that night a large crowd of men broke into the jail and hanged him in the doorway of the building. It was later clear that Jack did not fit the description of the rapist. Messages were exchanged by leaders of the mob and a number of telegraph operators conspired to withhold the original telegrams. In the telegram included here (possibly from William Kelly) the writer says, "A subpoena... in the form of a dragnett [sic] has been served on our Red Bank and Eatontown operators in the Mingo Jack lynching case. It cannot be obeyed... [it] is likely to drag in many persons and do them great injury..." Seven men arrested in the case but they were never indicted.
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