Name not reported

A Black man whose name was not recorded was held in the Mercer County jail in West Virginia on January 31, 1898. According to The Sun, a mob of about twenty armed men returned to the jail and took him from his cell without trouble. The men hanged him from a tree a short distance from town, and the paper reports that each of them then fired on him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about twenty men took him from his jail cell and hanged him from a tree, and the 1898 newspaper report says each man then fired on him.

Reported by: 1898 newspaper report (reporters).

Source

• The Sun, February 2, 1898, page 5 The Sun, February 2, 1898