Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a North Carolina jail in January 1869 was taken from the jail by a group of thirty or forty citizens and killed, according to a Baltimore dispatch reprinted in the Public Ledger. The dispatch says he was one of five men taken from a North Carolina jail a few days before the report and killed by the group. It does not give his name. No arrests had been made when the report was written.
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).