Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Hester, a Black man, was taken from a North Carolina jail on December 1, 1881, by a masked group of about 75 to 100 men and hanged, according to a brief Chicago Daily Tribune report published the next day. A second Black man was taken and killed in the same incident, though his name is garbled in the newspaper text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief 1881 report says a masked group of about 75 to 100 men took two Black men from a jail and hanged them.
Reported by: news reports.