Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in a jail in Illinois was taken from it by a mob, hanged to a post, and the body was burned, according to a 1903 editorial in the Goldsboro Weekly Argus of Goldsboro, North Carolina. The editorial repeats the mob's accusation against the person, which is not reproduced here. It gives no name for the person and no account of how jail staff responded. Whether the sheriff or jailer resisted, gave up the keys, or handed the person over is not established by this source.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: editorial in a North Carolina newspaper (reporters).