Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died December 28, 1879 · Idaho

Four Black men held in a jail in Idaho were taken from it by a mob on Sunday night, December 28, 1879, and shot dead. A Vermont newspaper reported the killings in January 1880. The men were not named in that report. The jail was the place they were held, and the mob came for them there.

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

Reported by: news reports.

Source

Vermont Phœnix, January 2, 1880, page 3 Vermont Phœnix, January 2, 1880

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