Tried to escape attackers by disguising himself in his wife’s clothing.

CURRENTLY: The site of Robinson’s death is not precisely known. This Lower East Side neighborhood today is a vibrant, ethnically diverse area and one of the few remaining working-class areas in lower Manhattan.
COMMEMORATED?: No.

Jeremiah Robinson (colored). – He was killed in Madison, near Catherine Street.  His widow stated that her husband, in order to escape, dressed himself in some of her clothes, and, in company with herself, and one other woman, left their residence and went toward one of the Brooklyn ferries.  Robinson wore a hood, which failed to hide his beard. Some boys, seeing his beard, lifted up the skirts of his dress, which exposed his heavy boots.

Immediately the mob set upon him, and the atrocities they perpetrated are so revolting that they are unfit for publication.  They finally killed him, and threw his body into the river.  His wife and her companion ran up Madison street, and escaped across the Grand Street Ferry to Brooklyn.