Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a jail near Raleigh, North Carolina, was taken from the jail by a masked party of about 100 men and lynched, according to a December 1881 newspaper report. He was the second of two men held at the same jail whom the group seized. His name is not given in the report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched