Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
He was one of eight Black men, none of them named, whom a mob took from the Lenoir County jail in North Carolina. A newspaper account published in May 1870 says the mob killed the men and threw them into the Neuse River. The account attributes the attack to the Ku Klux Klan. His own name and story are not recorded in that account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.