Allen Brooks In Dallas, Texas, Mr. Brooks was considered a trusted servant of the H. J. Bevens family until a servant claimed to have found Mr. Brooks and her 3 year old daughter in the barn. A local doctor found that she had been under "brutal treatment" and Mr. Brooks was immediately arrested. While his trial was underway, a 200 plus mob, entered the courtroom, overwhelmed the 50 armed deputies and twenty policemen and trapped Mr. Brooks on an upper floor. He was noosed and thrown to a crowd twenty feet below where he was attacked. His face was crushed in the assault. He was apparently dragged in a processional to one of Dallas' architectural landmarks. His clothes were ripped off, his shoes dragged from his feet and the final remnants were snatched off by souvenir hunters. The back of a postcard made from this event read, "Well John - This is a token of a great day we had in Dallas, March 3, a negro was hung for an assault on a three year old girl. I saw this on my noon hour. I was very much in the bunch. You can see the negro hanging on a telephone pole."
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