Lynching of Charles Lockwood
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Lynching of Charles Lockwood
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The lynching of Charles Lockwood took place on July 25, 1886, in Morris, Litchfield County in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Lockwood, a farmhand who had allegedly murdered a 16-year-old girl, was found hanging from a tree days after fleeing the scene of his alleged crime, while posses prowled the countryside searching for him. While the coroner attributed Lockwood's death to suicide, many sources consider his death a lynching. A white man, Lockwood may have been the only lynching victim in the
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1886 lynching in the U.S. state of Connecticut
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