“It is unknown how many white men committed crimes for which mobs lynched African American men, but occasionally the community caught the white culprit. In Raleigh, North Carolina, Charles E. Davis, a ‘prominent Wake County farmer,’ claimed in 1920 that an unidentified black man had murdered his wife. After authorities began to doubt his story that a ‘lecherous looking black’ had killed her, they arrested Davis for killing his wife, and he hung himself in the county jail.”
— From “Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South” by Kristina DuRocher (2011)