Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In August 1912, a dispatch published in The Wheeling Intelligencer reported that a mob of about 300 men took a young Black man from a jail where he was being held. According to the dispatch, the men held up court house officials to reach him. The mob then took him outside the city limits and killed him. His name does not appear in the surviving text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A news dispatch reports a mob of about 300 men held up court house officials, took a young Black man from the jail and lynched him outside the city limits.
Reported by: news dispatch.