Died in custody
Abe Dalley
Abe Dalley was one of five Black men held by guards in Arkansas in March 1904. According to a dispatch from DeWitt printed in The Indianapolis Journal on March 26, 1904, a crowd of men took the five men from the guards and shot them to death. The dispatch connects the killings to racial violence at St. Charles.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch from DeWitt, Arkansas, printed in The Indianapolis Journal says a crowd took Dalley and four other Black men from guards and shot them to death.
Reported by: Dispatch from DeWitt, Ark., printed in The Indianapolis Journal (reporters).