Note: We, NCMAAHC do wonder if these White racists would have been convicted had they not killed four other people including a White girl, in their terrorizing the city to get to a Black man to lynch him.
Would the mayor and governor have called out the Guard to protect if the racist mob had not killed the little White girl and the other three people, and had instead been successful in removing the Black man from jail and lynching him?
It is rare that we find where members of a racist White mob were arrested, tried, convicted and the conviction upheld, because they broke into a jail, removed a Black person, and lynched the person(s), or did not succeeded in removing the Black person but still attempted to do so.
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NORTH CAROLINA, 1918
Mob Leaders Go To Prison

Realizing that if a lyncher is permitted to remain unpunished the decency of the community is greatly endangered, Judge B. F. Long of the Superior Court sentenced fifteen white men, indicted for the participation in a riot in Winston-Salem, Nov. 17, to serve from fourteen months to six years in prison. The men were found guilty of attempting to lynch Russell High, a prisoner in the city jail.

The fifteen men were a part of a mob that for a night and morning terrorized Winston-Salem, and in their efforts to lynch a black man, innocent of the crime of assault for which he had been arrested on suspicion, put life and property in peril and incidentally killed four people, one a little white girl.

The Mayor of the city acted with promptitude and courage, calling out the Home Guards and the fire department which played water on the mob. Nearly every policeman was hurt. The Governor rushed troops from Camp Green at Charlotte. For many days cannon guarded the streets.

"We don't mean to be sentimental on this matter," a prominent business man is quoted as saying, "but we aren't going to have our city's good name spoilt by a lynching."

Condensed from reports of the North Carolina press.

Source: NAACP - THIRTY YEARS OF LYNCHING IN THE UNITED STATES 1889 - 1918 - Pages 27 and 28