Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Bramwell, West Virginia, was taken out by a gang of men and shot on February 1, 1898, according to a dispatch from Welch printed in the Daily Camera. The dispatch gives no name or age for him. The shooting is attributed to the men who took him, and that account rests on the single newspaper dispatch.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Welch, W. Va. dispatch printed in the Daily Camera says a gang of men took the man from the Bramwell jail and shot him.
Reported by: Daily Camera, citing a dispatch from Welch, W. Va. (reporters).