Lewis was accused by the mob of assaulting a white woman, Lena McMahon, in an incident by the
Neversink River,[1] after she had possibly been meeting with her estranged suitor, a white man named Peter Foley.[3]
^Goldsby, Jacqueline Denise (2006). A spectacular secret : lynching in American life and literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 110.
ISBN0-226-30137-0.
OCLC1151339348.
Lewis was accused by the mob of assaulting a white woman, Lena McMahon, in an incident by the
Neversink River,[1] after she had possibly been meeting with her estranged suitor, a white man named Peter Foley.[3]
^Goldsby, Jacqueline Denise (2006). A spectacular secret : lynching in American life and literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 110.
ISBN0-226-30137-0.
OCLC1151339348.