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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died May 1922

He was a Black man, one of three people a mob burned to death in a public square in May 1922. The Seward Gateway reported that the mob took him and the two others from the jail where they were being held. He was killed in the square, and the other two men were killed alongside him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report