Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In January 1869, a Baltimore dispatch reprinted in the Public Ledger reported that a group of thirty or forty citizens had taken five men from a North Carolina jail and killed them. He was one of those five men, who had been held at the jail. The dispatch said no arrests had been made in the killings.
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).