Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held at a Pennsylvania jail was taken from the jail by an armed group of men and women and burned to death, according to a news report published in August 1911. The report gives no name, date or town for him. The report's own description of this man is not repeated here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news report says an armed group took the man from the Pennsylvania jail and burned him to death.
Reported by: news report.