Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Plymouth, North Carolina, was one of three men a mob took from that jail and killed, according to a brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal from January 1888. He is not named in the account. The killing is described as a lynching from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.