Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Eight Black men, none of them named in the account, were held in the jail in Lenoir County, North Carolina, when a mob took them out, killed them, and threw them into the Neuse River. This man was one of those eight. The attacks were attributed to the Ku Klux Klan. The jail staff's response to the mob is not described.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.