Full Particulars of the Hanging of John Taylor, the Murderer of the Buck Family — A Horrible Transaction”, reprint of article from the Jackson, Michigan: reprint in Cleveland Plain Dealer

[1866 LYNCHING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN JOHN TAYLOR IN MICHIGAN; CLEVELAND DAILY PLAIN DEALER NEWSPAPER] "Full Particulars of the Hanging of John Taylor, the Murderer of the Buck Family — A Horrible Transaction", reprint of article from the Jackson, Michigan, Citizen newspaper on front page of The Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer, Volume XXII, Cleveland, Tuesday Evening, September 4, 1866, Number 217, 2-1/2" x 9", first article at top of third column (first two columns are ads), large-format newspaper / 20-1/2" x 26" as folded to 4 pages, 1 vertical and 3 horizontal folds, main article 3 columns on page 2 about president Andrew Johnson's stop in Cleveland during his tour of Northern states to promote his Reconstruction plans, headlines include "Grand Gala Night…Great Reception…Enormous Crowds", but he was greeted at times with heckling for his plans, about three-quarters of the issue is ads, some illustrated, for hoop skirts, Fall Fashions, hardware, home remedies, steam engines, and other consumer goods…article is detailed on the stages of the lynching, n-word used 4 times and "negro" used also, excerpts, "[T]wenty men armed with rifles…proceeded to the county jail. They were joined by twenty more armed with revolvers…They acquainted the sheriff with their mission, stating that they wished to get possession of the negro…they would go elsewhere to execute the culprit…a rope thrown over the limb of a tree, the noose adjusted around the prisoner's neck…a low, drunken fellow came forward, and said he would pray for the d—d [n-word]…all [n-word] ought to go to [hell]…."; NOTES: JOHN TAYLOR was born a slave in Kentucky…liberated by Union troops in the Civil War, he joined the 1st Michigan Colored Infantry…after the War he worked as a farmhand for John Buck of Delhi Township, Michigan…finding work paying more from a nearby farmer, Taylor went to Buck's home one night trying to get the back pay Buck owed him…Buck wasn't home, but his wife, daughter, and mother-in-law were…in the confusion and the dark, Taylor swung an axe, causing minor injuries, and fled…reports quickly circulated that Taylor had murdered the family…on August 27, 1866, a mob took Taylor out of his jail cell, and lynched him in a nearby rail depot…the leader of the mob was tried for the killing, and acquitted (online source Historical Marker Database)…on September 3, 1866, the New York Times ran an article on the incident headlined "END OF THE BUCK TRAGEDY; Lynch Law at Mason, Mich. – The Negro John Taylor, Who Attempted to Murder the Buck Family,Lynched"; CONDITION: overall well preserved, light normal wear.