Name not reported
According to a Petersburg, Virginia dispatch reprinted in the Barton County Democrat in 1891, a mob took a Black man from the Mecklenburg County jail, where he was held, and lynched him. The dispatch described him as one of five people taken from that jail and killed. It gives no name, age or other details about him, and it does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the prisoners over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Petersburg, Va. dispatch reprinted in the Barton County Democrat says a mob took five Black people held in a Mecklenburg County, Virginia jail and lynched them.
Reported by: special dispatch from Petersburg, Va., reprinted in the Barton County Democrat (reporters).