Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a special dispatch to the Boston Journal, reprinted in The National Republican in February 1869, five or seven people were taken from the jail at Kingston, North Carolina, and killed at a bridge over the Neuse River, and their bodies were thrown into the river. The dispatch describes the killings as a mob's work but does not say who took them from the jail. The people's names are not given.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch to the Boston Journal reports that people taken from the Kingston jail were slain at a Neuse River bridge and their bodies thrown into the river.
Reported by: special dispatch to the Boston Journal, as reported in The National Republican (reporters).