Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Belleville jail in Illinois was taken from the jail on June 7, 1903, by a crowd that overpowered the jail guards. According to an editorial in The Progressive Farmer published June 30, 1903, the crowd beat him, hanged him from a telegraph pole and burned his body. The paper counts his killing among the lynchings in the North that month.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Progressive Farmer editorial says a crowd overpowered the guards at the Belleville jail, beat him, hanged him from a telegraph pole and burned his body.
Reported by: The Progressive Farmer editorial (reporters).