Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob broke into the jail at Salisbury on Sunday night, August 5, 1906, and took people from their cells. The Canton Weekly Register reported that three of those taken were lynched, and this person, who was Black, was one of those killed. The paper did not name the people taken, and no official account of the jail's response is given in the source.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper account of the Salisbury jail mob (reporters).