Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a brief telegraphic report in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union, a Black man was taken from a jail in Virginia by a crowd of citizens and hanged. The report dates the killing to June 7, 1884, and the paper published it on June 12, 1884. The account is a single short wire item, and the man was held in the jail when the crowd took him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Sacramento Daily Record-Union, telegraphic report (reporters).