Matthew Williams (laborer)

Matthew Williams was lynched on December 4, 1931 in Salisbury, Maryland.^[1] He was pulled from a bed in Peninsula General Hospital where he was being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound, thrown out of a window and hanged.^[1] He had been hospitalized after he shot and killed his white employer and attempted suicide.^[2]

References

1 2 "Matt Williams (b. 1908 - d. 1931)". Biographical Series. Archives of Maryland . Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ "An American Tragedy". Maryland Historical Society. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

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