Weirdly, I had to go to a British newspaper, the North Devon Journal () to learn about a tax riot in Toledo, Ohio:
American taxpayers wrecked the Treasury buildings at Toledo, Ohio, and attempted to lynch the treasurer because he had charged an additional 5 per cent. tax on all taxes unpaid before a certain date.
I’ve had a devil of a time finding anything about this in the American press, or anywhere else for that matter. Between Google and a bunch of newspaper archives that I have access too, something should have turned up about an attempt to lynch a state treasurer.
Perhaps wires got crossed and this was something that happened in Toledo, Spain. Another possibility is that it was totally made up. It was a practice at some newspapers to generate spurious boilerplate one-paragraph stories to fill inconvenient white-space gaps with “bus plunges”, and perhaps this was one of them.
