Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Virginia jail was taken out by a mob and killed on August 3, 1921, according to a brief Associated Press dispatch datelined Petersburg. The report says another man held with him was left in the jail and not harmed. It does not give his name or say how the mob got in, or whether the jail's officers resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Associated Press dispatch (reporters).