Died in jail or a lockup
Dave Hawkins
Dave Hawkins, a Black man, was held in the jail at Tallulah in Madison Parish in April 1894. According to the People's Voice, a mob broke into the jail, took him from his cell and hanged him from the courthouse balustrade until he died. A later report from the same paper says three Black men were taken from their cells and hanged from the courthouse balustrade in the same way, and that their bodies were still hanging the next morning. The sheriff's office and the jail's staff have not been named in these accounts as having acted in any particular way toward him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Chronicling America newspaper reporting on the Tallulah jail lynching (reporters).