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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Brunswick County Jail, Brunswick County, Virginia

A Black man held at the jail in Lawrenceville, Virginia, was taken from it by a mob and lynched, according to a brief published in The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph on August 4, 1921. The brief names neither him nor the date of the killing. It describes him as one of two Black men held at the jail at the time.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

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