Died in jail or a lockup
Cal Foster
Cal Foster was one of two men a mob took from a jail in Louisiana and lynched on January 6, 1892, according to a brief item in the Weekly Courier-Journal published five days later. The item does not say how the mob got into the jail or whether the jailer or officers resisted or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Weekly Courier-Journal (reporters).