Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to The Lambertville Record, several Black people held at a jail were shot in May 1887, about a week before the paper reported it on May 25. The paper said the people who shot them were killers and that they must be punished. The shootings are reported as deaths in custody, and the account stops there.
Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined. The newspaper reports that the prisoners were shot in the jail and that their killers must be punished.
Reported by: newspaper report.