TABLE 5.-Number of persons lynched, by States and by five-year periods, 1889-1918.

TABLE 5.-Number of persons lynched, by States and by five-year periods, 1889–1918 Continued.

TABLE 6.—Number of persons lynched, by offenses charged and by color, 1889–1918

1 This classification includes all cases in which press accounts state that attacks upon women were made, but in which it was not clear whether rape was alleged to have been consummated or attempted.

2 Under this heading are listed such causes as "testifying against whites," "suing whites," "wrong man lynched,' ," "race prejudice," "defending himself against attack," etc.

TABLE 7.-Number of persons lynched, by offenses charged and by five-years periods,

1889-1918.1

TABLE 7.-Number of persons lynched, by offences charged and by five-years periods, 1889-1918-Continued.

TABLE 8.-Percentage of decrease during each five years' period, 1889-1918.

Seventy-four negroes, six white men lynched, from January 1 to Decem