Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men held in the Charlestown jail in Clark County, Indiana, were taken from the jail by masked men and hanged, according to an editorial in the Knoxville Weekly Chronicle published November 22, 1871. The editorial calls the killings a disgraceful mob crime and says the men should have been tried by a legal tribunal. The men are not named in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Knoxville Weekly Chronicle editorial says masked men took three Black men from the Charlestown jail and hanged them.
Reported by: Knoxville Weekly Chronicle (reporters).