Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Petersburg, Va. dispatch reprinted in the Barton County Democrat in January 1891, this Black person was one of five people held in the Mecklenburg County, Virginia jail who were taken from it and lynched by a mob. The dispatch gives no name, age or other detail about them. It does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up the keys or handed the five over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Petersburg, Va. dispatch reprinted in the Barton County Democrat reports that a mob took five Black people from the Mecklenburg County, Virginia jail and lynched them.
Reported by: special dispatch from Petersburg, Va., reprinted in the Barton County Democrat (reporters).