Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a news dispatch datelined January 25, 1869, a band of 30 or 40 citizens took five men from the jail in Kingston, New York, and killed them. One of the men was Black, and the dispatch gives no names for any of the five. No arrests had been made when the report was written. The account was printed in the Plymouth Weekly Democrat on February 4, 1869.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news dispatch.