Died in jail or a lockup
John Stoldhounà
John Stoldhounà, a Black man, was held at the jail in Tazewell, West Virginia. According to a Daily Inter Mountain dispatch published April 20, 1900, masked men broke into the jail shortly after midnight on April 18, 1900, took him from his cell, dragged him toward the woods and shot him repeatedly until he died. The paper reported that his body was then hanged from a tree. The name is garbled in the OCR text and may be inaccurate.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Masked men stormed the Tazewell jail, took him, shot him repeatedly and hanged his body from a tree, according to the Daily Inter Mountain.
Reported by: Daily Inter Mountain (Bluefield, W. Va., dispatch) (reporters).