C. T. Jones
C. T. Jones was held in the Shreveport jail in Louisiana while awaiting trial. According to a New Orleans Republican report, about fifty masked, armed men attacked the jail around midnight on May 16, 1874, removed him and another prisoner, and hanged them from trees in the courthouse yard. The same report says that earlier in the week a mob had tried to take him from the jail, and citizens turned it back and returned him to authorities. A Shreveport dispatch reprinted in the New Orleans Bulletin gives the same account of masked citizens taking him from the jail at night and hanging him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Masked citizens took C. T. Jones from the Shreveport jail at night and hanged him in the courthouse yard, according to a Shreveport dispatch reprinted in the New Orleans Bulletin; the accounts do not say whether jail officers resisted or gave up the keys.
Reported by: Shreveport dispatch reprinted in the New Orleans Bulletin (reporters).