Died in jail or a lockup
Jerry Finch
Jerry Finch, a Black man, was one of four people taken from a jail in Chatham County, North Carolina, by a mob on the night of September 28, 1885, and killed. Newspaper accounts say the four were hanged from a tree near a public road about a mile from Pittsboro, where their bodies were found the next morning. One account links the killing to earlier deaths in the Finch and Gunter families. Accounts differ on the details of how the mob got in.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Jerry Finch from a jail near Pittsboro, North Carolina, and hanged him from a tree, according to several 1885 newspaper accounts.
Reported by: news reports.