Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is not recorded, was held in the Saline County jail in Alabama in July 1859. The Iowa Transcript, reporting unnamed accounts, says a mob broke into the jail, took him by force and hanged him, along with two other Black men taken the same way.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Iowa Transcript reports that a mob took the men from the county jail and hanged them.
Reported by: The Iowa Transcript (reporters).