Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person was taken from a jail in Illinois by a mob and lynched, according to a one-line item in a Pawtucket Gazette and Chronicle news roundup published June 9, 1893. The account gives no name, age, or exact date for the death. It also says nothing about whether the jail or its officers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed the person over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.