Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Louisiana jail was taken from his cell by a mob before daylight and lynched, according to a Lancaster Daily Intelligencer account published in August 1881. The article gives only a first name, which is garbled in the scanned text, so his identity cannot be confirmed from this source.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.