Died in jail or a lockup
D. C. Hutchins
D. C. Hutchins, printed in some papers as Hatchins, was being taken under guard to the Bellevue jail in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, in May 1883. Newspaper accounts say about seventy-five masked men took him from his guards and hanged him in the woods near a ferry landing across from Shreveport, on May 12 or 13, depending on the report. According to the local account, he stabbed himself near the heart as the crowd approached.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: The Daily Dispatch (Richmond), reporting the local account (reporters); news reports of the lynching.