Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name cannot be read in the surviving newspaper fragment was taken from jail and killed by a mob early on a Saturday morning in 1896, most likely July 4. According to the Middletown Transcript, the jailer, a Black man who lived in an adjoining house, was forced to surrender the keys. The article is badly damaged by OCR errors, so the jail's location and the man's details cannot be confirmed. No other sources were available to establish what happened beyond this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.