Name not reported
A Black person held in the Mecklenburg County jail in Virginia was reportedly taken from the jail by a mob and killed, according to a brief special dispatch from Petersburg, Va., printed in The Grenada Sentinel on January 3, 1891. The dispatch does not give the person's name or the exact date, and it does not say how the mob got in or whether the jailer resisted or handed the person over. The dispatch describes this as one of several Black people held in the jail at the time. The death rests on this single brief report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch from Petersburg, Va. reports that a mob took a Black man from a Mecklenburg County, Virginia jail and lynched him.
Reported by: special dispatch from Petersburg, Va. (reporters).