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Joe 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 for 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]