Illinois Genealogy & History: The Lynching of Child Murderer Martin Mera, Iroquois Co., 1871

Martin MERA Lynched
for Child Murder
Iroquois County, Illinois

The Baltimore Weekly Sun

Baltimore, Maryland

July 23, 1871

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