Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name is garbled on the scanned page was taken from a North Carolina jail by a mob in the early morning of April 1, 1894, and hanged. The Jasper Weekly Courier reported that he had been held at the jail for about a week and that the sheriff had stopped expecting an attempt at lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.