John Richards
Goldsboro, North Carolina
January 12, 1916

Mr. Richards was dragged from his cell by a masked crowd of two hundred for the alleged murder of a local farmer, Anderson Gurley. The crowd took him to the crime scene where he was hanged. The photo shows him suspended from a tree by a rope under his arms and around his chest. His lower body is draped to cover a possible castration. His body was riddled with bullets that "almost cut his body to pieces."