WEAVER, Lucius (d. 1879)
Another Negro Killed by a Mob
Knoxville, July 14th – Lucius WEAVER (colored), who in May last committed rape on Mrs. HOWELL, a white lady, near Strawberry Plains, was arrested yesterday and taken today to Mrs. HOWELL’s house and fully identified by her. Tonight he was taken from the guards by a mob of 100 men, carried half a mile from town and fatally shot through the head.
Source: Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 8, Number 109, 15 July 1879. Available at the California Digital Newspaper Collection. <http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc>