Lynching redux

[Wilson Gray]

On Aug 4, 2005, at 6:11 PM, Michael McKernan wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: Lynching redux
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> George A. Thompson wrote:
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>> 1843:   Dr. Wells, of Madison county, Ohio, charged with habitually
>> whipping his wife, was lately taken from his house at night by some of
>> his neighbors and severely lynched.  New York Daily Express, March 8,
>> 1843, p. 2, col. 4
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> Then, there's this:
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> http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/Browser1/aubrowser/
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> The Vindicator, March 5, 1859, p. 1, c. 7
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>                        LYNCH LAW ADMINISTERED BY WOMEN.
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> --At Lynnville Oregon county, Ill., a few days ago, a shoemaker named
> Ozias
> G. Elliot was arrested on the charge of
> having murdered his wife, whose body was found

> buried under mysterious circumstances

I wonder how different that is from being, e.g. buried under a mound of
paperwork.

-Wilson

> and whom he had always
> greatly ill-treated.--While the coroner's jury were holding an inquest
> on
> the body, the prisoner was attacked in the hotel,
> where he was in custody, by a number of infuriated women, who tore out
> his
> hair and handled him so roughly that his life
> was in danger. He was then locked up in an upper room by the officers,
> to
> keep him from the fury of the women, and
> while there he jumped out of the window and escaped.
>
> Michael McKernan
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