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: ‘An Englishman is Lynched to Save Expense’, detail from the Illustrated Police News, 11 July 1896.
‘An Englishman is Lynched to Save Expense’, detail from the Illustrated Police News, 11 July 1896 © British Library Board.

The mob took no chances. Acting under cover of darkness, all of them masked and some wearing women’s dresses to further conceal their identities, they forced their way into the jail, dragged one of the inmates outside and hanged him by the neck from a bridge. Although authorities offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible, no charges were ever brought.



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