Died in jail or a lockup
Bob Clark
Bob Clark was eighteen years old and Black. He was being held at the jail on the Virginia side of Bristol when a crowd, which the Shenandoah Herald estimated at three thousand, took him from it. The crowd followed its leaders about a mile out of the city into a grove, where he was hanged and died within a few minutes. The paper reported that some prominent men protested the killing while others favored it, and that the city was excited.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.