Name not reported
On the evening of January 3, 1893, a man held in the Bakersville, North Carolina jail was taken by a mob. According to a Bakersville correspondent's account, the sheriff's guard resisted the mob's demand for the prisoners, but the mob broke into the jail, dragged the men out and killed them. The man's name is not recorded in the report, which the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer printed on January 6, 1893. A Chattanooga dispatch in the same paper called the reported killings a fake.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (disputed). A Bakersville correspondent reported that a mob shot the prisoner and then strung him up after breaking into the jail, while a Chattanooga dispatch in the same paper called the reported killings a fake.
Reported by: Bakersville correspondent, as reported in the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (reporters); Chattanooga dispatch, as reported in the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (reporters).