Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was in the custody of officers transporting him by wagon to the Towanda jail in Pennsylvania. Masked men pulled him from the wagon and shot him to death, according to the Alexandria Gazette's report in September 1874. The mob took him from the officers escorting him to the jail, and he was killed there on the road.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched