Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Princeton, Mercer County, West Virginia, died on April 13, 1891, when a mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree, according to a brief news dispatch. His name is not legible in the garbled text of the account. The dispatch does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch says a mob took him from the Princeton jail and hanged him to a tree.
Reported by: news dispatch.