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The Lynching of the Frenches of Warsaw happened in Warsaw, Gallatin County, Kentucky on May 3, 1876 in between 1am-2am on a Wednesday morning. The lynching of the Frenches of Warsaw (Benjamin and Mollie French, husband and wife) was an unusual situation where African Americans were lynched by a white mob for the murder of another African American.〔Wright, George C. 1990. Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and "Legal Lynchings". pp. 98-99. Louisiana State University Press,Baton Rouge and London.〕 Lake Jones was an elderly black man who had faithfully served a white family named Howard, both before and after his emancipation from slavery.〔Cincinnati Commercial. May 5, 1876. http://www.nkyviews.com/gallatin/text/lake_jones_lynched_2.htm〕 The Frenches killed Lake Jones by arsenic poisoning, intending to steal his property.〔Segrave, Kerry. Lynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946. "Hung to the limb of a tree". Petersburg Index and Appeal. Virginia, May 6, 1876, p. 1. "Crimes and casualties." Logansport Weekly Journal. Indiana, May 13, 1876. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-0GWpeccB1MC&pg=PA26〕〔http://www.africaworldnewspaper.com/recorded-cases-of-black-female-lynching-victims-1886-1957-in-the-united-states/〕 The Ku Klux Klan became involved because, according to them, the inoffensive Lake Jones was "the best nigger in the country."〔〔Cincinnati Enquirer. May 5, 1876. "A Bloody Night's Work at Warsaw, Ky." http://www.nkyviews.com/gallatin/text/lake_jones_lynched.htm〕〔''Frankfort Tri-Weekly Yeoman''. May 11, 1876. http://www.nkyviews.com/gallatin/text/lake_jones_lynched_3.htm〕 The Klansmen broke into the jail, took the Frenches about a mile north of Warsaw, and hung them both on a tree on J.H. McDaniels' (McDonnell's) farm.〔〔 ==The murder and attempted robbery of Lake Jones== Lake Jones lived with his cousin Mollie and her husband Benjamin French in an run down building called "the Malt-house" in Warsaw.〔 Jones generously spent much of his money when he moved in with the Frenches, buying them food and paying their rent. However, Jones finally moved out and the Frenches determined to get the rest of his money. On April 19, 1876, Lake Jones went to work on a farm as usual and "returned in the evening as healthy and fresh as ever."〔 Mollie French invited him to have dinner, and Lake accepted. A half hour later, Jones began to feel very ill, vomiting up blood and complaining of a burning pain in his stomach and intestines. He threw himself on the floor and rolled about in agony, calling for a physician. The Frenches simply watch him slowly die. About an hour later, some neighbors arrived and Jones into his bed. They called Dr. Robinson, the local physician. Robinson immediately suspected arsenic poisoning. After 3 days of agony, Lake Jones died on April 22, 1876. Judge-Executive Brown of the County Court ordered an investigation on April 24. It was discovered that Benjamin French had procured one ounce of arsenic at Vance's drug store a few days before, saying he wanted it to kill rats. Upon questioning, both Benjamin and Mollie French admitted that Benjamin bought the poison, but denied they bought it to murder Lake Jones. Later that evening, Mollie French tried to escape "with Place Reston, a Negro roustabout, with whom she had had improper intercourse for some time."〔 The after death examination by Dr. Robinson further substantiated the suspicion that Lake had died of arsenic poisoning. "() stomach of Jones was sent to Louisville for chemical examination."〔 Benjamin and Mollie French were arrested on April 24, 1876 by Judge Brown's order, and charged with murder. It was suggested that Place Reston also be arrested, but Judge Brown refused to do so, believing that Reston didn't have anything to do with the murder of Lake Jones. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lynchings of Benjamin and Mollie French」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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