Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person, whose name is not known, was taken from a jail in Maryland by a mob and lynched on October 27, 1894, according to a brief item in the Turner County Herald of November 1, 1894. The paper gives no name, age, or town for the person, and it does not say whether the sheriff or jailer resisted, gave up the keys, or handed the person over. The account is limited to this single short report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.