Died in jail or a lockup
John Packer
John Packer was one of four Black men held in a jail who, according to an 1892 report in The Free Press, were taken out by a mob and killed. The paper says the men were lynched, shot, hanged and burned. The report gives no account of how the mob got in or whether jail officers resisted or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Free Press reported in 1892 that a mob took John Packer from the jail and lynched, shot, hanged and burned him.
Reported by: The Free Press (reporters).