Died in jail or a lockup
George Finch
George Finch was one of four men held at the Chatham County jail in North Carolina when a mob took them from the jail and killed them in September 1885. According to a news dispatch published in the Las Vegas Daily Gazette, the mob hanged the four about a mile from Pittsboro. The dispatch reports that their bodies were found the next morning, hanging from a tree near the public road. Lynchings of people taken from jail custody were not uncommon in this period, and Finch's death is recorded here as one of them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch reports that a mob took George Finch from the Chatham County jail and lynched him about one mile from Pittsboro.
Reported by: news dispatch.