Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Joseph Cocking (white)
MSA SC 3520-17901
Lynched in Port Tobacco, June 28, 1896

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Archival Sources -

CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Judgement_Docket) 1891-1900, JST 2, folio 224 & 272, MSA T3230-5
CHARLES COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Clerks Docket) 07/1896, JST, folios 8-11, MSA T399-121

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Newspaper Articles -

April 25, 1896
"Husband a Suspect."Washington Times, 25 April 1896.

April 27, 1896
"Cocking Arrested." The Baltimore Sun, 27 April 1896.
Depiction of Joseph Cocking.The Evening Star, 27 April 1896.

May 1, 1896
"Double Murder."Highland Recorder, 1 May 1896.

May 21, 1896
"Joseph Cocking's Trial."The Baltimore Sun, 21 May 1896.

June 27, 1896
"La Plata Lynching."The Evening Star, 27 June 1896.

June 28, 1896
"Lynching in Maryland."The Boston Globe, 28 June 1896.

June 29, 1896
"Cocking Lynched."The Baltimore Sun, 29 June 1896.
"To Go Unpunished."The Evening Star, 29 June 1896.

July 4, 1896
"Joseph Cocking Taken From Jail and Hanged."The Democratic Advocate, 4 July 1896.

December 10, 1896
"Lynching of an Englishman in America."The Western Argus, 10 December, 1896.

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Secondary Sources -

Arnold-Lourie, Christine. "'A Madman's Deed - Maniac's Hand': Gender and Justice in Three Maryland Lynchings." Journal of Social History, 2008.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Vol. 87. MD, 1898.

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