Name not reported
A Black man was held in the Wythe County jail at Wytheville, Virginia, in 1926. According to an Associated Press account reprinted by the Richmond Planet, a mob of masked men took him from custody, beat him, dragged his body nine miles behind an automobile, hanged it from a tree and shot it. The jailer told reporters that about fifty men took part and that he had been roughly handled by them. The Richmond Planet condemned the killing and asked that the jailer's conduct be investigated.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of masked men beat, shot and hanged the man from a tree after taking him from the Wytheville jail, according to an Associated Press account reprinted by the Richmond Planet, which asked that the jailer's conduct be investigated.
Reported by: Associated Press account reprinted by the Richmond Planet (reporters); the jailer.