Sam Carter Research Paper

On New Years in florida 1923, a woman named Fannie Taylor frantically left her home claiming a black man had entered her house and assaulted her. She fell unconscious for multiple hours before talking to the police. Robert walker the sheriff of the town got about 8 guys to help look for the intruder Fannie had described, A little while later more and more white men were furious over the event that they decided to join the search party for Fannies Violator. After searching for a while the search party decided it was time to bring out the blood hounds to help aid their search. The dogs then later lead the group to a black smith, Sam Carter’s home. Unfortunately the 45 year old was last seen driving away the primary suspect. Carter then lead the group to a location where he claimed he dropped the suspect off. The posse thought Sam Carter was lying, so they decided to torture him to see if he would spew the truth.With no success, they later wrapped a rope around Sam’s neck and hund him from a tree just before shooting him in the head to insure his death. They posse left his body on a nearby road where it was discovered the next morning Over …show more content…
The crowed then found their way to surround Mrs. Carriers home. Two men from the mob walked to the front door and it's unclear whether or not they tried to force their way in but they were both shot and killed. The posse who were now furious that two of their member had just been shot before them they had let out round after round of gun fire towards the house. After shooting for a long while around 2:30am a white man decided to go near the front of the house once more. When it was about 4:00am the posse outside the home ran out of ammunition and went to go restore it and when they did the people inside then manage to escape without being