Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man who was a member of Richard A. Pringle's Minstrels was held in the jail at New Madrid, Missouri, when a mob took him out and lynched him, according to a brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal published on February 18, 1902. The item does not give his name or the exact date of his death. It also does not say how the mob got into the jail, or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.