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Green was being held at the jail in Upper Marlboro. Threats of lynching were openly made and were held off by the vigilance of Sheriff James N.W. Wilson. On September 1, 1878, a band of masked men removed Green from the jail and took him a mile outside of town to the corner of Queen Anne's Road and Hills Lane.
Green burials are legal under Colorado law, but the state requires that any body not buried within 24 hours be properly refrigerated until they can be buried. The funeral home sits near a number ...
CAÑON CITY, Colo. (AP) — The awful smell seeped from a neglected building in a small Colorado town for days, followed by a report that made police take a closer look at the “green” funeral ...
Misterly allowed the Hells Angels to return to Sacramento as part of a one-day truce to attend the funeral of Miles, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in Berkeley on January 9, 1966. Up to 300 Hells Angels from eleven club chapters throughout California were present at Miles' funeral before they were given a police escort out of the city ...
Police said Friday that they found at least 115 bodies at a "green" funeral home in Colorado. During a press conference on Oct. 6 at Fremont County Sheriff's Office in Canon City, Colorado ...
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
David Lynch revealed one of his biggest career regrets years before his death. The celebrated director of Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks died just days before his 79th birthday, his ...
In 1782, Charles Lynch wrote that his assistant had administered Lynch's law to Tories "for Dealing with the negroes &c". [10] Charles Lynch was a Virginia Quaker, [11]: 23ff planter, and Patriot who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War, occasionally imprisoning them for up to a year ...