Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is not recorded, was held in the Lenoir County jail in North Carolina. According to a report in The Weekly Standard in May 1870, a mob took him from the jail, killed him and threw his body into the Neuse River. The paper attributed the attack to the Ku Klux Klan and listed it among eight such killings of Black men. The account gives no date for the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.