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Archibald Pe-mn

died November 7, 1888 · Crawford County, Michigan

Archibald Pe-mn was in the custody of the sheriff at Grayling, Michigan, in November 1888. Early on November 7, according to a Grayling dispatch printed in the Rock Island Daily Argus, about thirty masked men took him from the sheriff and hanged him to a tree. The report says the men who did it are known, but that legal action against them was hardly likely.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch from Grayling, Michigan says about thirty masked men took him from the sheriff and hanged him to a tree.

Reported by: Grayling, Mich., dispatch in a newspaper report (reporters).

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