Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Martinsburg, West Virginia, was taken from it by a mob and lynched, according to a brief item in The Panola Weekly Star published February 27, 1886. He was in the custody of that jail when the mob took him, and he was killed. The jail was responsible for keeping him safe, and the mob's killing of him ended that custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched