Died in jail or a lockup
One of 4 people whose names were not reported
A Black man held in a cell at the North Vernon, Indiana jail died on October 11, 1878. According to a Cincinnati dispatch printed in the New Orleans Daily Democrat, a mob of about one hundred masked men overpowered the guards, broke into his cell, and took him to the courthouse yard, where he was hanged from a locust tree. He was one of four Black men held in that cell.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Cincinnati dispatch in the New Orleans Daily Democrat says a mob of about one hundred masked men overpowered the jail guards, broke into the cell and hanged him from a locust tree in the courthouse yard.
Reported by: Cincinnati dispatch quoted in the New Orleans Daily Democrat (reporters).