Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Charles Stewart

Perry County Detention Center, Perry County, Arkansas

Charles Stewart was held in the Perry County jail in Arkansas when, according to a brief item in the Fisherman & Farmer published in June 1892, he was lynched. The account gives no details about the mob, how they reached him, or whether jail officers resisted or handed him over. Nothing further about his life or family is recorded in this source.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report