Tartar

Tartar, a Black man, was held in the jail at Mason, according to a brief dispatch in The New York Herald of August 1866. A mob took him from the jail and hanged him. The dispatch does not say whether the jailer or other officials resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• The New York Herald, August 29, 1866, page 2 The New York Herald, August 29, 1866