Zachariah Walker
Zachariah Walker was shot and taken to a hospital in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, where he was held under police guard. According to The Cairo Bulletin's August 1911 account, a crowd of nearly 1,000 people broke into the hospital, took him out on a cot, and carried him about half a mile out of town. There, the crowd set fire to grass and weeds around him, and he was burned to death. The article reports that he begged not to be hanged and that the guard was overpowered; the paper's account of how the police responded is not recorded here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of nearly 1,000 broke into the Coatesville hospital where police were guarding him, took him on a cot and burned him alive in a pile of grass and weeds about half a mile out of town.
Reported by: news reports.