Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Baltimore Sun editorial reprinted in The Gold Leaf, a mob in Indiana lynched an unnamed Black man on Monday, December 24, 1900. The editorial places his death on the Monday after two men taken from a jail were hanged. He is known only from this account, and he is remembered here by name only as a person whose death the mob carried out.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Baltimore Sun editorial reprinted in The Gold Leaf says a mob lynched a Black man in Indiana after taking men from a jail.
Reported by: Baltimore Sun editorial (reprinted in The Gold Leaf) (reporters).