Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Lenoir County, North Carolina

A man whose name is not recorded was one of eight Black men a mob took from the Lenoir County jail in North Carolina. According to a Raleigh paper's list of outrages, reprinted in The Weekly Standard, the Ku Klux Klan carried out the attack. The mob killed the men and threw them into the Neuse River.

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 Raleigh paper's list of outrages, which the article repeats and attributes to the Ku Klux Klan.

Reported by: a Raleigh paper's list of outrages, repeated in the article (reporters).

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