Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
He was one of ten Black men held in a county jail. According to an 1871 Morning Republican report, a large party of Ku Klux Klan members took the ten men from the jail at night and shot them to death. The report said the stated reason was fear that other Black men would come to rescue them. The paper described the killings as a deliberate act of terror.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.