Hand of a lynched man marks tree in Caroline county
A 20 year old atrocity tale recaps the lynching of Jim Wilson and mutilation in Greensborough. It notes a swamp poplar bearing a human hand’s ghostly print, nailed to the trunk as a mob's relic, and chronicles the brutal murder, desecration, and later fates of several participants, including the execution, robbery, and ruin that followed the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Den'ron
Caroline county
Tuckahoe Neck
Ellen Phummer
Edgar Plummer
Greensborough
Jim Wilson
Wilson
Tie
Saulbury
Thomas Lockerman
wedge
court-house yard
court house yard
Greenwell
George W. Vincent
Vincent
Denton causeway
Seaford
Marcy Fountain
penury
James III
Barwick
Thomas Lockerlarn
delerium tremens
Jim Long
Andreas di Castino
Abruzzi
Old customs and memories of love and duty
The piece recalls simple rural love and respect for traditional manners, praising the good old customs that shaped present life. It contrasts past gentleness with today’s supposed sophistication, noting how memory preserves those habits. It also includes brief, varied clippings about a Massachusetts brewer Mr Drinkwater, a lawyer remark, an eccentric optician, and a Missouri cashier named Petty who fled arrest for petty larceny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
perths
Glen
WILGST
minufacturer
alice Catton Gouda
HOSSEBY
Massca
pitties
c. TAMILILON
Baltimore Street
Abruzzi
Andreas di Castine
Andreas
Terra Pass
Jay
La Signora
Adalini
Francavilla
Jong
Edmund Lyons
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BROWN’ n OWN
Brown
Brown Chemical Co
Baltimore
Carrollton Hotel
Baltimore, Light and
Baltiore
Maryland
F. W COLEMAN
HOWELL & BROTHERS
West Baltimore Street
BALTIMORE, MD
FRANCIS KELLY & CO
PROPRIETORS OF ‘THE
ORANGE GROVE
Market Street
WILMINGTON
DIL
Adam’s Express Co
CARPENTERS & BUILDERS
PRESTON
Thiave
W. & Todd
S. H. FLUHARTY & TODD
Preston, Md
T. Willoughby
WM. H. LANE & CO
Hillsborough
ESTEY
Talbot
Caroline
Queen Anne’s
G. W. MINNICK & SON
TITE BANK
SALESIANON WAN TIN
HOOPES BRO
THOMAS
Cherry HMI Nartericw
West Cherter
eno
Hamilton Raster & Sons
Excelsior
dexcelsiors” Department of Furnishing Goods
South
United States
EXCELSIOR 8
Jas. Parnell
DENTON
Centreville
Mad
Jas H. Straughn
Pat W. Downes
M.S. MutTcurre
DOWNES & MUTCHLER
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Denton, Mob
Ges. E.SHANNANAN
OFFICE ON DOYLIESINELT
Easton, Mp
SWALD TILGHSIAN
MTP
AND
GREENSBORO
COHEE
NY IRWIN
Directionan
A. VOGELER & Co
dhattinrore
The
American
Herald
Telegram
Baltimorean
Baltimore Methodist
Norfolk News
Union Bridge Index
Frederick county
S. Catsail
Kemptown
Nathan Chaney
Dennis Flowser
Howard Bartholew
C. C. Smith
Jno. Griffeth
Joseph Runkles
Prospect
ORKNEY CHEMICAL
N. Eutaw st
H. BLACKISTON & SON
GAMBRILL’S
BLACKISTON & SON
Denton, Mid
Flora
Semumer
skylark
Philomel
A. W. Bennett
Philo. Press
The Bandit
Guilletta di Marti
Santa Madonnal
Guilletta
Bhaint
Florida
VPa
Drinkwater
Massachu ctés
Tam
Connecticut
Missouri
Petty
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