BOWIE, Md. (AP) — The mob hauled Henry Davis out of the county jail on Calvert Street, led him through the Clay Street neighborhood to Brickyard Hill overlooking the end of College Creek and hung him from a Chestnut tree.
Their rage not satisfied, they shot him 100 times or more. A man took pictures of Davis, and sold postcards, two for a quarter. One customer bought 50 copies.
The Evening Capital headline read: “Assault on woman avenged – Davis dragged from jail and lynched – Mob riddled Negro ravisher with bullets.”
“The people in the old Fourth Ward heard the screams, locked their doors,” said local historian Janice Hayes-Williams. “The mob was saying if you choose to act this way this will happen to you.”
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24 comments:
So, this happened nearly 100 years before I was born. SO WHAT? Can this criminal pay me for any crimes he may have committed against MY family? Of course not! People need to stop finding excuses to hate each other which is something Sharpton and Jackson have been so good at. We have now had a President that had 8 years to help people stop hating each other. Maybe they just don't want to stop anything.
Who EFFIN cares about this dude that had a problem in 1884?
They call this history for a reason.....it happened in the PAST, at a time before most of us were even thought of....move forward, look ahead and not behind!
is this not what is called social justice?
Happens to white people every day.
Why is this a dark era its history and cant be changed.
Dems drool on issues like this to incite racial wars.
This sounds like a good way today to take care of some of the thugs we keep in jail, 3 hots and a cot paid for by taxpayers.
The good old days. Should happen to most criminals today, black or white.
Until it happens to you or your family, besides that constitution thingy is only good for protecting the right to bear arms. Who cares about being found guilty before being executed.
And then there were the two lynchings in Princess Anne. Like it or not, our laws are set up so that all have the right to stand trial in a court of law.
No trial? Sheese
Lynchings are done by mobs. Mobs don't think right, no matter who it is that they're hanging.
Democrats lynched a lot of people blacks and Republicans alike.
Ask BLM.
During the 1930's There was a lynching in Princess Anne where they dragged a man from old County jail. Also one from a tree in front of the Wicomico Courthouse after dragging him from his hospital room. No one could identify any of the culprits.
True true and true
It's a part of American history.
724
Thank you for stating the obvious
Millinials.
We need to bring back the mobs...cut them loose on the BLM movements and those race baiters in DC
One of the lynchings in Princess Anne happened to a man who raped a relative of mine. I don't agree with him being lynched, but he was not innocent. the lady he raped never fully got over being raped by a "black man" due to decade it happened in.
History, duh. Why is in school college... . If you want that. Get rid of all it washington, franklin...including the various religions. You can t pick and choose what doesnt get told. Is quite embarrassing and shameful.
At lease that would be equal opportunity
It is said history repeats itself. Let's wait and see....
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