Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held at the jail at Plymouth, North Carolina, when a mob took him from the jail and killed him, according to a brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal published on January 31, 1888. The jail held him at the time, and the mob took him from that custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.