Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
One of five Black people held in the Mecklenburg County jail in Virginia, this person was reportedly taken from the jail by a mob and lynched, according to a special dispatch from Petersburg, Va., published in January 1891. The dispatch did not give their name or the date of the killing. It said the mob took them from the jail and killed them, but described nothing about the jail's officers or how the crowd gained entry.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch from Petersburg, Virginia, reports that a mob took a Black man from the Mecklenburg County jail and lynched him.
Reported by: special dispatch from Petersburg, Va. (reporters).