Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In 1883, the Delaware State Journal reported that a crowd went to a city jail, took a Black man from the police and hanged him. The account says his body was then taken down and dragged through the streets. The paper does not give his name, and the surviving passage does not say where or on what day this happened.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.