Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Black people held in the jail in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, were reportedly taken from the jail by a mob and killed by lynching, according to a special dispatch from Petersburg, Virginia, published in January 1891. The dispatch does not name them. It does not say when the killings happened or how the mob got in, or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted or handed over the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: special dispatch from Petersburg, Va. (reporters).