Died in jail or a lockup
Dock
Dock, a Black man, was in the custody of the deputy sheriffs of Ashdown, Arkansas, and was being brought back to Ashdown from New Boston, Texas, in May 1910. According to a Little Rock dispatch printed in the East St. Louis Daily Journal, a mob of about 25 white men took him from two deputy sheriffs as the officers reached the courthouse yard gates. The mob hanged him in the jail yard. One officer was struck over the head, and the report says no shots were fired.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Little Rock dispatch in the East St. Louis Daily Journal (reporters).