Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, not named in the dispatch, was one of five men held in a North Carolina jail in January 1869. According to a Baltimore dispatch reprinted in the Public Ledger, a group of thirty or forty citizens took the five men from the jail and killed them. The dispatch said no arrests had been made.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Baltimore dispatch reprinted in the Public Ledger says a group of thirty or forty citizens took him from a North Carolina jail and killed him.
Reported by: Baltimore dispatch reprinted in the Public Ledger (reporters).