Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Cairo city jail was taken before daylight in August 1869 by about eighty armed men, according to a Cairo dispatch reprinted in The Athens Post. The men hanged him from a tree in the suburbs. A placard pinned to his chest warned people not to cut down the body.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cairo dispatch reprinted in The Athens Post says about eighty armed men took him from the city jail before daylight and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Cairo dispatch reprinted in The Athens Post (reporters).