Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died April 15, 1883 · Bertie Martin Regional Jail, Bertie County, North Carolina

A Black man was being held in the jail at Windsor, North Carolina. On April 15, 1883, according to a Norfolk dispatch printed in the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him. The jail was the place where he was held when the mob took him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, reporting a Norfolk dispatch (reporters).

Source

The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, April 17, 1883, page 1 The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo, April 17, 1883

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