Executed
William Lee
William Lee, a Black man, was held in a jail in Maryland in July 1906. According to the Palestine Daily Herald, officers moved him by boat to Smiths Island to get him away from a threatened mob, and he was hanged there. The paper reported that the sheriff took the gallows and witnesses on the same boat.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: the 1906 newspaper account (reporters).