George Stevenson

It's possible that George Stevenson was the first murder in Hattiesburg, not Dolly Williamson. I'd have to check it out, but it seems he was lynched back on June 3, 1890. I guess back in the day that wasn't considered murder, but these days it probably would be.

From the list here: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Base/8507/NLPlaces2.htm

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 * HATTIESBURG
 * A Negro Lynched for Attempted Outrage
 * HATTIESBURG, Miss., June 2. --[Special] --
 * A negro man named Geo. Stevenson attempted an outrage on Widow Dearman a few miles north of this place Friday night. He was caught and his feet compared with tracks made with his shoes and found to be the same. Then he confessed.
 * Two men started to Augusta to put the fellow in jail, and about eight or nine miles from there, about dark, thirty or forty men overtook them and captured the negro by force and said they would attend to him. Of course he was lynched.

Source: Daily Picayune (New Orleans) June 3, 1890, page 3

What's an outrage? Also, Friday would have been May 30, not June 2. So he must have been lynched on May 30. -- Brad