Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to the New York Herald, in February 1871 about forty masked horsemen took ten people from a local jail in the night. The paper's account, which in this case is the source for the death, says this Black person was one of the ten. The Herald reported that two of the ten were never accounted for again, and that they were lost, a term the paper said meant hanging. The mob that took them from the jail is named in the paper's report as the party responsible for their deaths.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: New York Herald report (reporters).