Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black men held in an Indiana jail were taken out by a mob of unmasked men and hanged from a tree on Sunday, December 23, 1900, according to a Baltimore Sun editorial reprinted in The Gold Leaf on December 27, 1900. The editorial treats the killings as a lynching. The names of the two men are not given, and the jail and the officers' response are not described in the account. The editorial's claims about the men's alleged crime are not repeated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Baltimore Sun editorial, reprinted in The Gold Leaf, says a mob hanged two Black men taken from an Indiana jail.
Reported by: Baltimore Sun editorial (reprinted in The Gold Leaf) (reporters).