Claude Freeman

Death by Force

Claude Freeman, a citizen of Fayette, Mississippi, met a tragic end on September 28, 1903, in Harriston, MS. His death was part of a horrific event that unfolded in the early hours of that Sunday morning. The incident began when Willie Jones, an eighteen-year-old mulatto boy, went on a murder rampage in Harriston. Armed with a double-barrel shotgun and a supply of buckshot shells, Jones wreaked havoc on both white and black residents of the town.

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