Died in jail or a lockup
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 special dispatch from Petersburg, Va., printed in The Grenada Sentinel on January 3, 1891. The dispatch described them as the fifth of five Black people then held at the jail, but it gave no name and no date for the killing. It did not say how the mob got into the jail or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted or handed over the keys.
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 the Mecklenburg County jail and lynched him.
Reported by: special dispatch from Petersburg, Va. (reporters).