Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail near Leesburg, Virginia, was seized from it by a mob that stormed the building and killed him. An Evening Star report from February 1910 mentions the killing only in passing, as background to a detective's work with bloodhounds. The report gives neither his name nor the date of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.