Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Petersburg, Va. dispatch printed in the Barton County Democrat in 1891, five Black people held at a jail in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, were taken from the jail by a mob and lynched. The report names none of them and gives no dates. It does not say how the mob got in, or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed the prisoners over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch from Petersburg, Va., reprinted in the Barton County Democrat reports that five Black people held in a Mecklenburg County, Virginia jail were taken out and lynched.
Reported by: special dispatch from Petersburg, Va., reprinted in the Barton County Democrat (reporters).