1882 114 1883 134 1884 211 1885 184 1886 138 1887 122 1888 142 1889 176 1890 128 1891 195 1892 235 1893 200 1894 197 1895 180 1896 131 1897 165 1898 127 1899 107 1900 115 1901 135 1902 97 1903 104 ———— Total 3337 This table agrees with the Tribune table for the nineteen years with the exception of the years 1890, 1891, 1894, 1895, 1897 and 1902. In some of these cases the difference is due merely to an error which had been made in footing up the lists. Some instances are given of a father and son being lynched, or of five horse thieves, or of two negroes, and each of these instances had been counted as one in making up the totals. In other cases an error was found in the instance reported. In 1902, a report of a negro having been lynched for murder in Alabama was found later to be untrue and his name was dropped from the list.[210] Two names have been added to the list for 1902 from information which the writer obtained through the newspaper clipping agency and subsequent correspondence. In 1903 a record of persons lynched, kept by the writer from newspapers other than the Chicago Tribune,[211] contained sixty-three out of the one hundred and four reported by the Tribune, and corroborated the Tribune record with reference to these sixty-three. In the writer’s record seven lynchings were reported which did not appear in the Tribune record. Letters of inquiry in regard to these resulted in only four replies, one denying that the reported lynching had taken place, the remaining three not stating definitely whether any lynching whatsoever had taken place. No alteration, therefore, has been made in the Tribune record for 1903. [Illustration: I. NUMBER LYNCHED COMPARED WITH NUMBER LEGALLY EXECUTED 1882–1903] [Illustration: II. NUMBER LYNCHED ACCORDING TO MONTHS IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE U.S. 1882–1903]