Died in jail or a lockup
Wm Allen
Wm. Allen, a Black man, was held at the jail at Warwick Court House, Virginia, in December 1881. A press dispatch datelined Fortress Monroe reported that a party of masked men took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree by the roadside, and a Warwick County citizen, Henry Jones, gave a similar account on reaching Hampton. Whether jail officers resisted the group or handed over the keys is not stated in the reports. The accounts are brief and come from the dispatch and that citizen's account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: press report datelined Fortress Monroe (reporters); Henry Jones, a Warwick County citizen (witnesses).