Died in jail or a lockup
Hubert Berrier
Hubert Berrier was held in the Lexington jail in North Carolina in October 1889. According to a newspaper dispatch from Columbia, South Carolina, dated October 17, a masked mob came to the jail and the jailer refused to hand him over, and the doors were battered down. The dispatch says the mob took him to an oak tree at the edge of town and hanged him. The account also says that before he died he asked that his child be looked after.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch from Columbia, S.C. says a masked mob battered down the Lexington jail doors, took Berrier to an oak tree at the edge of town and hanged him.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch (Columbia, S.C., Oct. 17) (reporters).