Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1884-12-14 | Page 1 | Lynched a Negro

Lynched a Negro BALTIMORE December 13A morning paper publishes the statement that Hezekiah Brown a colored schoolteacher school-teacher in a lonely part of Howard County was hanged yesterday by thirteen thir-teen masked mem It was charged that ne became too intimate with a young white woman He declared he had married mar-ried her but no record of the marriage could be found The lynching is said to have occurred in a wild section of the county sparsely populated At Ellicott City the county seat of Howard nothing was heard of it The States Attorney cSent a messenger to ascertain the facts 1