Died in jail or a lockup
Charles Hurd
Charles Hurd, a Black man whom one paper also names Charles Kurd, was held in the jail at Warburg, Tennessee, in November 1895. According to the Daily Public Ledger, about ten days before its November 22 report, a mob broke down the jail doors, took him from custody and lynched him. The Greenville Times, reporting the killing at the jail at Wartburg, said the mob entered the jail, took him out at midnight and lynched him. Both papers describe his death as a lynching by a mob that came for him from the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper dispatch.