Name not reported

According to The Democratic Advocate, which reported on February 5, 1898, a mob took an unidentified Black man from a jail in West Virginia and lynched him. The paper says he had been arrested and was being held in that jail when the mob came for him. The report gives the jail's name and the date of the lynching, and the man is identified only as a Black man. The paper's account of the events that led to his arrest is not repeated here.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Democratic Advocate reports that a mob took the arrested man from the jail and lynched him.

Reported by: The Democratic Advocate (reporters).

Source

• The Democratic Advocate, February 5, 1898, page 2 The Democratic Advocate, February 5, 1898