Joseph Brown

Joseph Brown was held in the jail at Whitmer, West Virginia, in March 1909. According to the Washington Herald, masked men came to the jail late at night, and two guards, N. Y. Nordeck and Charley Cross, gave him up to them. The crowd hanged him from a pole a short distance away, and his body was found the next morning. A coroner's inquest jury found that he died at the hands of parties unknown. The Randolph County state's attorney said he would investigate and try to identify members of the mob.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of men took Joseph Brown from the jail at Elkins, West Virginia, and hanged him from a telegraph pole, and the accounts do not say whether jail staff resisted or handed him over.

Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).

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