Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a jail was one of six men taken from it by a mob early on Sunday morning, May 21, 1911, and lynched. According to the Daily Gate City, a group of men showed the jailer a telegram that was later found to be bogus, and the men were then taken out of the jail. The mob killed him along with the other men held there.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.