Died in jail or a lockup
Brownie Tuttle
Brownie Tuttle, a Black man, was held in the Hope City Jail in Hope, Arkansas, when a mob took him from the jail on the night of March 15, 1921, and hanged him near the building. An Associated Press report carried by the Cordova Daily Times put the crowd at about three hundred people, while the Norwich Bulletin gave about two hundred. Neither account says whether jail officers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody