Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, recorded in the garbled OCR text of an 1878 newspaper as Joseph Kusscll, was taken from a jail by a mob on September 20, 1878, and killed. The scan garbles the town and the account of how the mob got in, so the place and the jailer's response cannot be confirmed from this page. No details about who he was, his family or his work survive in the text. The paper's account is not confirmed beyond this single OCR page.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Chronicling America historical newspaper page (OCR text) (reporters).