Died in jail or a lockup
Bud Walker
Bud Walker, a Black man, was wounded in a gunfight with a posse near Mannford, Oklahoma. On the morning of Saturday, December 2, 1911, a mob took him from a deputy sheriff at the jail door, hanged him from a tree and riddled his body with bullets. Walker was fatally wounded in the battle with the posse before he was taken from the jail. The newspapers reporting his death are brief.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Bud Walker from a deputy sheriff at the jail door, hanged him from a tree and riddled his body with bullets, after he was wounded in a gunfight with a posse near Mannford, Oklahoma.
Reported by: news reports.