Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was taken from a jail by a mob and lynched in front of the courthouse, according to a brief item in The Yale Expositor published in October 1916. The mob took him from the jail, and he was one of two men killed that way in the same episode. His name is not given in the sources.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.