Bill McMillan
Bill McMillan was one of two men held in the Martinsburg jail in Elliott County. According to the account, a masked group calling itself the Regulators, numbering about five hundred men, forced the jailer to hand over the keys, then took McMillan and another prisoner from the jail at midnight and hanged them from a walnut tree in the courthouse yard. The jailer's handing over of the keys is reported in the account, and the group said its act was done by command of Judge Lynch. The article describes the killing as a lynching and says no effort was made to bring those responsible to justice.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Regulators, a masked group calling itself acting 'by command of Judge Lynch', took McMillan from the Martinsburg jail and hanged him after the jailer handed over the keys.
Reported by: the Regulators.