Saturday, November 14, 2026

Judge Richardson, 13, Found Dead Hanging in Tree, Nov. 13, 1926

Negro Boy Is Hanged to Tree in Play

Fayetteville, Nov. 13—The body of Judge Richardson, 13-year-old negro, was found this afternoon hanging to a tree in the yard of a house where he lived here. It is not known whether the death was accidental or intentional. It is thought that he had been playing with a rope in the tree and accidentally got his head in the noose.

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, Nov. 14, 1926

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn93064755/1926-11-14/ed-1/seq-1/

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