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Murder case in the United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Vermilion was a 27-year-old white man[1] lynched December 3, 1889 for the crime of arson in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.[2]
Vermillion had been jailed in Upper Marlboro for a series of arsons involving barns filled with tobacco and houses in Prince George's County.[3] At 2:30am, a band of masked men broke into the jail, overpowered the jailkeeper, and left with Vermillion.[3]
Vermillion was dragged to the "iron bridge just between the town and the railroad depot"[4] and hanged.[3] His body was left hanging from the bridge until the coroner's investigation.[3]
That same bridge was used 5 years later in another lynching, of Stephen Williams, by a similar band of masked men.[4]
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