Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A young Black man held in the Lynchburg, Virginia jail was taken from his cell and hanged by a crowd of citizens, according to a brief dispatch in the Daily Evening Bulletin dated June 14, 1884. The dispatch does not give his name. It also does not say how the crowd reached him or whether jail officers resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.