Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Winchester on August 25, 1901, was taken from the building by a crowd of several hundred men who had gathered there. According to The Mt. Sterling Advocate, an assistant attorney general and a judge tried to calm the crowd but could not stop it. The paper reported that he was carried from the jail at noon to the place where he was burned alive.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched