Died in jail or a lockup
Martin Rolland
Martin Rolland, a Black man, was held in the Washington County jail at Abingdon, Virginia. Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, April 2, 1889, an armed mob forced the jail doors, went to his cell, struck the irons from his limbs and took him more than a mile away. There they hanged him and fired into his body. The mob, not the jail, is recorded as having carried out the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.