Name not reported

A Black man held in the Brunswick County jail at Lawrenceville, Virginia, was taken from the jail by a mob early one morning in August 1921 and lynched, according to a Petersburg dispatch printed in The Watchman And Southron. The dispatch says he was one of two men captured after the killing of a postmaster, and that the other man was left in the jail unharmed. His name is not given in the report. The dispatch does not say how the mob got into the jail or whether jail officers resisted, gave up the keys or handed him over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Petersburg, Va. dispatch in The Watchman And Southron (reporters).

Source

• The Watchman And Southron, August 3, 1921, page 4 The Watchman And Southron, August 3, 1921