Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man was taken from officers by a mob on the night of Tuesday, May 23, 1893, and lynched, according to a short wire item in the Daily Kennebec Journal. The item does not give his name, and the jail or lockup where he was held cannot be read from the garbled text. Whether officers resisted the mob or handed him over is not stated in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.