Cover
Anna Pelley
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Cairo, Illinois, Map Key
Cairo, Illinois, Map
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Anna Pelley’s Life and Death
2. The Crime Investigation
3. The Flight and Pursuit of Will “Froggie” James
4. The Lynchings of Will “Froggie” James and Henry A. Salzner
5. A Third Lynching Prevented
6. The National Spotlight on Cairo
7. The Removal of Sheriff Frank E. Davis
8. Lovie Green and Her House
9. The Grand Jury’s Report and Coroner’s Verdict
10. The Anna Pelley and Mary E. Salzner Memorials
11. Liquor, Vice, and Corruption in Cairo
12. Corruption and Reform
13. A New Sheriff, a Purse Snatching, and Another Lynch Mob
14. Another Coroner’s Inquest and Investigation
15. The Cairo Police and a New Reform Effort
16. The Riot Cases
17. The Contest for Alexander County Sheriff in Court and at
the Polls
18. Politics and the African American Community in Cairo
19. Sheriff Abner Bankson and the Homicide of Wilfred French
20. Pretrial Publicity and a Change of Venue
21. The Trial of Sheriff Bankson
22. Sheriff Bankson on the Stand
23. The Verdict
24. The Analysis of the Verdict and Its Consequences
Conclusion
Appendix A: Homicides in Cairo, Illinois, 1900–1912
Appendix B: Cairo Intentional Homicide Rates, 1890–1912
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author
Back Cover