Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, not named in the Baltimore dispatch reprinted in the Public Ledger on January 29, 1869, was one of five men taken from a North Carolina jail in January 1869. A group of thirty or forty citizens took them and killed them. No arrests had been made as of the report.
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).