Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
This man was one of eight Black men, none of them named, whom a mob took from the Lenoir County jail in North Carolina, killed, and threw into the Neuse River. The Weekly Standard, reporting in May 1870, attributed the attack to the Ku Klux Klan.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.