Died in jail or a lockup
Will Len
Will Len, a Black man, was held in the jail at Hinton, West Virginia. According to the Highland Recorder, a mob of about 100 masked men took him from the jail at about 11:15 and hanged him, and his body was afterward riddled with bullets. The paper does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or gave up the prisoner.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched