Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Emporia, in Greenville County, Virginia, was seized by a mob and hanged. The article says the mob was able to act once the state militia had left, and that the sheriff and judge were too frightened to stop them. It describes the sheriff as too frightened to stop the mob rather than as resisting it. The same episode also killed another man, whose death is recorded separately.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched