Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held at a jail was taken from it by a mob and killed in a lynching in front of the courthouse, according to a brief 1916 news item in the Yale Expositor. He was the second of two men the mob took from the jail in this way. The account gives his death as a lynching by a mob that broke into the jail's custody. Other details of his life and death are not recorded here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched