Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is garbled in the surviving text, was held in a jail when a mob took him from it and killed him by lynching. The Buffalo Bulletin reported the killing in a brief item published on October 5, 1893. The man's family, the jail and the county are not named in the item.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.