Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a jail was taken out by a mob and burned at a stake, according to a brief item in the Oxford Democrat, a weekly news summary published in June 1855. The account is badly garbled in its archived form, so his name, the place and the date of his death cannot be recovered from this page. It does not say how the mob got in, or whether the jail's officers resisted, gave up the keys or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.