Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob of about 3,000 men battered down the doors of the jail in Salisbury, North Carolina, where six Black men were being held in August 1906, and took three of them out and lynched them. Two other men were shot during the attack, one of them probably fatally. The three men who were killed are not named in the account, which is a 1906 newspaper report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.