Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In June 1903, a mob took a Black man from the jail in St. Clair County, Illinois, and lynched and burned him, according to a Newark Journal item published on June 12 of that year. The account gives no name for him and nothing about his family or life. The paper presented the killing as the community's response to an attack on a county school superintendent, a justification the mob's supporters offered rather than a point the source establishes.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.