Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail in Salisbury, North Carolina, was taken from the jail by a mob and killed, according to Governor Robert Glenn. Glenn cited the killing in an address on mob violence, reported by the Montgomery Advertiser in August 1906, as one of three people taken from the Salisbury jail. The governor said the state must not see a repeat of those events.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Governor Glenn of North Carolina says a mob took this person from a jail in Salisbury and lynched them.
Reported by: Governor Glenn of North Carolina, in an address on mob violence.