Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is not legible in the surviving text of The Sully County Watchman from October 10, 1885, was reportedly one of four people taken from a jail by a mob and hanged. The paper gives no place or date for the killings, and the page is too garbled to recover names, the facility, or whether the sheriff or jailer resisted or handed the prisoners over. No other source in the record describes this person, and nothing about their family or life can be confirmed from this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.