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Haynes Jr. took Albert Harris, who was a teenager, into custody over an alleged trespassing charge in the backyard of a white woman. He was released to a mob in Dixie Inn, which took him to a field near Cotton Valley. He was bound upside down to a pipe and severely beaten. Sheriff's deputies picked up the cousin of Harris Jr.'s – John Cecil Jones – at his job. Both men were placed in the parish jail for days without formal charges and beaten. Jones was an honorably-discharged [[World War II]] [[United States Army]] corporal. On August 8, 1946, Haynes released Jones and Harris Jr. to a mob at the old parish jail in Minden. This led to the only known post-World War II lynching in Louisiana. Harris and Jones were tortured just south of Minden. Jones was hanged, and Harris was left for dead.<ref name=fbifile>FBI File 44-1444</ref> The last legal hanging in Minden had been prior to 1890. Thereafter, convicts being put to death were sent to the state penitentiary at Angola in West Feliciana Parish.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_t0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Tom+Colten&source=bl&ots=frCU6aVj_E&sig=qa4-IvKaTIzj9BGXTKwRhweGBc0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vTP-VNTKObO1sAS37YHYDg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=Tom%20Colten&f=false|title=Lost Minden|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Columbia, South Carolina]]|author=John Allison Agan|pages=120|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4671-1319-9|accessdate=March 9, 2015}}</ref>

Haynes Jr. took Albert Harris, who was a teenager, into custody over an alleged trespassing charge in the backyard of a white woman. He was released to a mob in Dixie Inn, which took him to a field near Cotton Valley. He was bound upside down to a pipe and severely beaten. Sheriff's deputies picked up the cousin of Harris Jr.'s – John Cecil Jones – at his job. Both men were placed in the parish jail for days without formal charges and beaten. Jones was an honorably-discharged [[World War II]] [[United States Army]] corporal. On August 8, 1946, Haynes released Jones and Harris Jr. to a mob at the old parish jail in Minden. This led to the only known post-World War II lynching in Louisiana. Harris and Jones were tortured just south of Minden. Jones was hanged, and Harris was left for dead.<ref name=fbifile>FBI File 44-1444</ref> The last legal hanging in Minden had been prior to 1890. Thereafter, convicts being put to death were sent to the state penitentiary at Angola in West Feliciana Parish.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_t0BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Tom+Colten&source=bl&ots=frCU6aVj_E&sig=qa4-IvKaTIzj9BGXTKwRhweGBc0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vTP-VNTKObO1sAS37YHYDg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwDg#v=onepage&q=Tom%20Colten&f=false|title=Lost Minden|publisher=Arcadia Publishing Company|location=[[Columbia, South Carolina]]|author=John Allison Agan|pages=120|date=2014|isbn=978-1-4671-1319-9|accessdate=March 9, 2015}}</ref>

The charges against Chief Garey Gantt were dropped by U.S. Attorney [[Malcolm Lafargue]] after Gantt cooperated with officials. The other defendants were found not guilty by a jury of twelve white men in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qoLa8ysYUIC&pg=PA114&dq=%22Malcolm+Lafargue%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KkzeVKeMMcWuyATjyoG4Ag&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Malcolm%20Lafargue%22&f=false|title=A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|location=[[Baton Rouge]]|pages=114–115|author=Rachel L. Emanuel and Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr.|date=2011|isbn=978-0-8071-3793-2|accessdate=February 13, 2015}}</ref>

The charges against Chief Garey Gantt were dropped by U.S. Attorney Malcolm Lafargue after Gantt cooperated with officials. The other defendants were found not guilty by a jury of twelve white men in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in [[Shreveport]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qoLa8ysYUIC&pg=PA114&dq=%22Malcolm+Lafargue%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KkzeVKeMMcWuyATjyoG4Ag&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Malcolm%20Lafargue%22&f=false|title=A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana|publisher=[[Louisiana State University]] Press|location=[[Baton Rouge]]|pages=114–115|author=Rachel L. Emanuel and Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr.|date=2011|isbn=978-0-8071-3793-2|accessdate=February 13, 2015}}</ref>

==Later years==

==Later years==