Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men were hanged at a county jail in North Carolina in December 1885, according to the Middlebury Register, a Vermont newspaper that reported the killings a few days after they happened. The men are not named in the account. The record says a mob took them from the jail and hanged them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.