George Brown

George Brown was held in the Elkins jail in Elkins, West Virginia, in March 1909. According to a United Press dispatch printed in the University Missourian, about fifty men took him from the jail and lynched him. The dispatch gives no day beyond a garbled dateline, so the exact date of his death is uncertain.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A United Press dispatch reported that a group of about fifty men took George Brown from the Elkins jail and lynched him.

Reported by: United Press dispatch (reporters).

Source

• University Missourian, March 22, 1909, page 3 University Missourian, March 22, 1909