The only way that Negro Matthew Williams knew to protest his low wages was to get a revolver, kill his boss. His boss was Daniel J. Elliott, 67-year-old lumber dealer of Salisbury, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Last week, a few hours after the crime, the Eastern Shore upheld its reputation for being a fringe of the Deep South. Six men marched into the hospital where Williams lay, only partly conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned out to see rough-&-ready justice...
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