Lynching of Joseph Vermillion

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Joseph Vermilion was a 27-year-old African-American man lynched December 3, 1889 for the crime of arson in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.[1]

Joe Vermillion had been jailed in Upper Marlboro for a series of arsons involving barns filled with tobacco and houses in Prince George's County.[2] At 2:30am, a band of masked men broke into the jail, overpowered the jailkeeper and left with Vermillion.[2]

Vermillion was dragged to the "iron bridge just between the town and the railroad depot"[3] and hanged.[2] His body was left hanging from the bridge for the coroner's investigation.[2]

That same bridge was used 5 years later in another lynching of Stephen Williams by a similar band of masked men.[3]

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