Lynching of Charles Lockwood

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 history of Connecticut and even of New England.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Cutler, James Elbert (1905). Lynch-law: An Investigation into the History of Lynching in the United States. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. pp. 181–182. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  2. ^ Winslow York, Dena Lynn (2000). "They Lynching Jim Cullen": New England's Only Lynching. History (PhD dissertation). The University of Maine. pp. 14–15.
  3. ^ Vermilyea, Peter C. (2016). Wicked Litchfield County. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-1-4671-1969-6.