Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An 18-year-old Black man was held in the jail at Burlington. According to the Narragansett Herald, published May 10, 1884, about 100 masked men took him out of the jail and hanged him from a tree. He was killed by that mob after being taken from the jail's custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched