Page Wallace
Page Wallace was being taken from the Hagerstown jail toward the Leesburg jail in Virginia on February 17, 1880, in the custody of a deputy sheriff and the Loudoun County sheriff. A Baltimore dispatch reprinted in the Daily Republican says an armed crowd met the train, followed the officers into Virginia, surrounded them and took him from their possession. The report says the crowd hanged him from the nearest tree and shot his body, and that about two hundred men took part. The account also says the lynching could have been foreseen and avoided with proper precautions.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Baltimore dispatch reprinted in the Daily Republican says an armed crowd took Page Wallace from the officers escorting him from the Hagerstown jail and hanged and shot him, and that the lynching could have been prevented with proper precautions.
Reported by: Baltimore dispatch reprinted in the Daily Republican (reporters).