Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unidentified Black man, held in a jail in July 1894, was taken from the jail by a mob in the early morning and hanged, according to a brief report in The Sun. The account gives no name for him and does not name the town or state where it happened. The scanned text is garbled in places, so the location cannot be read with confidence.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.