| 词条 | Lynching of William Burns |
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Officer Baker attempted to arrest Burns, but Burns resisted and shot Baker in a scuffle.[2] Burns was then arrested and taken to the Cumberland Jail.[2] Several days later, Baker died in hospital and a mob of 50 men with their coats turned inside out and handkerchiefs over their faces gathered outside the jail at 12:40am.[2] The mob tore down a telegraph pole and used it to batter down the doors to the jail.[2] Burns was dragged out of his cell after the deputy on duty handed over the keys to the cell at gunpoint.[2] Burns was taken outside "peppered with bullets" and left to die.[2] The crowd wanted to hang Burns, but they couldn't find a rope.[2] The Allegany County Commissioners offered a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the people who took Burns from the jail.[3] Benjamin A. Richmond, an associate of Governor Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. stated that a number of prominent men from Cumberland and vicinity were involved in the lynching.[2] References1. ^{{cite web|last1=Sutton|first1=Dana Z.|title=William Burns Lynched in Cumberland, October 6, 1907|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013700/013759/html/13759bio.html|website=Biographical Series|publisher=Maryland State Archives|accessdate=12 May 2015|pages=MSA SC 3520-13759|date=4 May 2007}} {{Lynching in the United States|state=collapsed}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite news|title=Burns Lynched: Negro Slayer of Policeman Taken From Jail By Mob|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013700/013759/tif/sun6oct1907.tif|accessdate=12 May 2015|publisher=Baltimore Sun|date=6 October 1907}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Rewards|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013700/013759/tif/frost12oct1907.tif|accessdate=12 May 2015|publisher=Frostburg Mining Journal|date=12 October 1907}} 7 : 1907 deaths|1907 in Maryland|Allegany County, Maryland|Lynching deaths in Maryland|Racially motivated violence against African Americans|October 1907 events|1907 crimes in the United States |
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