Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Tazewell, West Virginia, died in April 1900 after a mob took him from the jail, according to a news dispatch datelined Bluefield and printed in The Brunswick Times on April 21, 1900. The dispatch says masked men broke into the jail with axes shortly after midnight and dragged him about 200 yards toward the woods. It reports that he was shot and found dead before the woods were reached, and that his body was then hanged from a tree limb. His name is garbled in the surviving text and cannot be reliably recovered.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1900 news dispatch says masked men broke into the Tazewell, West Virginia, jail with axes, shot the man repeatedly and hanged him.
Reported by: news dispatch datelined Bluefield, W. Va. (reporters).