Died in custody
Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson, a Black man, was held in a cell in Sedalia, Missouri, and died there in November 1886. The Mitchell Capital reported that he soaked his clothing and bedding with coal oil, set them alight, and was fatally burned, and the paper described it as a suicide. The account gives no further details of his life or of what happened in the cell.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The report says Hudson soaked his clothing and bedding with coal oil in his Sedalia cell and set them alight, and that he gave fear of being hanged as his reason.
Reported by: news reports.