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Mullock Walker

Corinth, Massachusetts

Mullock Walker, a Black man, was held at the jail in Corinth when a large masked mob took him from the jail and hanged him. The Marshall County Independent reported the killing in August 1898. His death was a killing carried out by that mob while he was in the jail's custody.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

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