Author Janet Messner Tallon Releases Inside the Coatesville Lynching, a New Look at This Century Old Murder and Lynching in Coatesville, PA
Summary
Examinations of Grand Jury Testimony along with actual hearings reveal contributing factors that played a major part in the tragedy.Though the work does not exonerate the mob, these new facts will let the reader understand the outrage that a community felt when they were faced with the information that this man admitted to a previous murder he committed and had now struck again.Attorney W. MacElree in his book Side Lights on the Bench and Bar of Chester County, 1919 said “On August 12, 1911, Zachariah Walker committed a horrible crime.Though the work does not exonerate the mob, these new facts will let the reader understand the outrage that a community felt when they were faced with the information that this man admitted to a previous murder he committed and had now struck again.Attorney W. MacElree in his book Side Lights on the Bench and Bar of Chester County, 1919 said “On August 12, 1911, Zachariah Walker committed a horrible crime.After marrying she moved back to Pennsylvania and in 1982 along with NOW Legal Defense which changed its name to Legal Momentum in 2004 became the first women in the state with her attorneys the ERA Impact Project won the first state ERA case, Tallon v. Liberty Hose Company No.