Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Charles Lamp

died June 8, 1894

Charles Lamp was held in a jail when a mob took him out and shot him dead on the morning of June 8, 1894. A special dispatch to the Pine Bluff Daily Graphic reported the killing, and that dispatch is the source for these details. The account names no other people involved and no official response.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Special Dispatch to the Graphic (reporters).

News report