Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the St. Louis jail while awaiting trial was taken from the jail by a mob in July 1859 and hanged, according to a Missouri newspaper published July 27 of that year. The account gives no name for him and no information about his family or life. The paper does not say how the mob got in or whether jail officers resisted it or gave up the men held there.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.