Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was among ten men held in a local jail in February 1871, according to a New York Herald report published in May of that year. The paper reports that about forty masked horsemen came to the jail in the night and took the ten men out. Six of the men were hanged, and he was one of them. The Herald gives no name for him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The New York Herald reported that masked horsemen took the man from the jail at night and hanged him.
Reported by: New York Herald (reporters).