Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Eight Black men, none of whom the report names, were taken from the jail in Lenoir County, North Carolina, by a mob and killed, according to The Weekly Standard in May 1870. The paper, repeating a list of outrages from a Raleigh newspaper, attributed the killings to the Ku Klux Klan. The men were said to have been thrown into the Neuse River after they were killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took eight Black men from a Lenoir County jail, killed them and threw them into the Neuse River, according to a newspaper list of outrages that attributes the attack to the Ku Klux Klan.
Reported by: a Raleigh newspaper's list of outrages, as reprinted (reporters).