Fate of a Negro Ravisher
Item
- Title
- Fate of a Negro Ravisher
- Date
- February 19, 1880
- page
- 3
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015483/1880-02-19/ed-1/?sp=3&q=assault&r=0.611,0.616,0.15,0.165,0
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- Mob; lynched
- Race of alleged offender
- alleged black offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- mob
- Stage of the Legal System
- arraignment
- Location
- Out of State; Baltimore MD
- Length of story
- 211
- Description
-
Fate of a Negro Ravisher.
Baltimore, Feb. 18. Page Wallace, colored, imprisoned for a brutal assault on a respected married lady near there, escaped from the jail at Leesburg, Va., on Jan. 27. He met Miss Morman, a teacher, knocked her senseless and assaulted her, and then escaped to this State. A gang of regulators immediately started to search for him. Six days later he was arrested and taken to the Hagerstown jail to prevent mob violence. Two Virginia officers came for and received him yesterday. A body of 200 men, nearly all masked, met the train as it stopped at Point of Rocks, took possession of the sheriff and the prisoner, and acted as guard as all marched to the ferry and crossed the river. As soon as they landed on the Virginia shore, the regulators took the prisoner by force from the sheriff and hanged him to the nearest tree. After the rope had been fastened, the regulators marched off 20 paces, turned and fired three volleys of bullets into his dangling body. Mary Morman, the wronged woman, was among the crowd which waited for the landing of Wallace on the Virginia shore. She fully identified the prisoner and was the first to shoot at the negro's dangling form.
