Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A 19-year-old Black person was being held at the jail in Tarboro, North Carolina, in May 1887. A mob took them from the jail and hanged them at the spot the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal identified as the scene of the killing. The account names the jail, the mob, and the hanging, and it is the only source for these facts.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.