Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was taken from the jail at Wrafield, West Virginia, by a mob and hanged to a tree, according to a brief item in The Abbeville Press and Banner published April 26, 1882. The item gives him no name. It places the killing at the jail, where he was held, and does not describe what the jail officers did when the mob came.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.