Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Windsor, North Carolina, died in April 1883 after a mob took him from the jail and hanged him, according to a Norfolk dispatch reprinted in the Memphis Daily Appeal. The dispatch does not give his name or anything else about who he was. It also does not say whether the jailer or other officers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Norfolk dispatch reprinted in the Memphis Daily Appeal says a mob took him from the Windsor jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Norfolk dispatch reprinted in the Memphis Daily Appeal (reporters).