Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name is garbled in the surviving scan was held at a jail in a town whose name is also unreadable, according to a brief 1891 wire item. Masked men took him from the jail and hanged him. The item says the killing caused great excitement among colored people and that an armed group patrolled the town afterward.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief wire item says masked men took the man from the jail and hanged him.
Reported by: brief wire item in a historical newspaper.