Died in jail or a lockup
One of 6 people whose names were not reported
A mob took one of three Black men from the jail in Jefferson and hanged him on or about November 15, 1900, according to a year-end chronology of lynchings published in the De Queen Bee. The chronology gives no name for him, and no state is given for the place. No further account of who he was or of how the jail's staff responded is available from this source, so the circumstances of his death remain unestablished.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.