Lynching of Stephen Williams
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Lynching of Stephen Williams
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Stephen Williams was an African American man, lynched in Upper Marlboro, Maryland on October 20, 1894. Williams had confessed to assaulting Mrs. Katie Hardesty, an offense described as "one of the most brutal in the criminal annals of Prince George's County" and was locked up in the Jail in Upper Marlboro. A group of masked men broke into the jail and pulled Williams from under his mattress, put a rope around his neck and dragged him from the jail. Williams was dragged to the "iron bridge just b
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