Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a brief item in the Wausau Pilot in September 1901, a Black man held at the jail in Wickliffe was taken from it and hanged by a group of Black men. The item reports that he was one of three men killed in this way. The account is the newspaper's, from a single short report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.