Name not reported
A Black man held in the Fayetteville jail in West Virginia was taken from custody on August 30, 1889, according to a Charleston dispatch reprinted in the Shenandoah Herald. The dispatch says a mob of about 150 masked men arrived from Rush Run in the early morning, held the jailer and a watchman at gunpoint, and that the watchman handed over the keys after the mob threatened to use dynamite. The man was shot at the jail, dragged about half a mile, hanged from a tree and shot many more times. The dispatch is the only source given for these events.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Charleston, W. Va. dispatch reprinted in the Shenandoah Herald says a mob of about 150 masked men took him from the Fayetteville jail, shot him and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Charleston, W. Va. dispatch reprinted in the Shenandoah Herald (reporters).