Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died June 11, 1884 · Russell County, Virginia

A young man was taken from the jail at Castlewood, Virginia, on June 11, 1884, and hanged by a mob, according to a brief item in The Superior Times of June 21, 1884. The account gives no name for him. The jail is the place that held him, and it was a mob that took him from it and killed him.

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

Source

The Superior Times, June 21, 1884, page 1 The Superior Times, June 21, 1884

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