Vermillion had been jailed in Upper Marlboro for a series of arsons involving barns filled with
tobacco and houses in Prince George's County.[3] At 2:30am, a band of masked men broke into the jail, overpowered the jailkeeper, and left with Vermillion.[3]
Vermillion was dragged to the "iron bridge just between the town and the railroad depot"[4] and hanged.[3] His body was left hanging from the bridge until the coroner's investigation.[3]
That same bridge was used 5 years later in another lynching, of
Stephen Williams, by a similar band of masked men.[4]
Vermillion had been jailed in Upper Marlboro for a series of arsons involving barns filled with
tobacco and houses in Prince George's County.[3] At 2:30am, a band of masked men broke into the jail, overpowered the jailkeeper, and left with Vermillion.[3]
Vermillion was dragged to the "iron bridge just between the town and the railroad depot"[4] and hanged.[3] His body was left hanging from the bridge until the coroner's investigation.[3]
That same bridge was used 5 years later in another lynching, of
Stephen Williams, by a similar band of masked men.[4]