Died in jail or a lockup
George Carroll
George Carroll, a Black man, was one of six men held in the Amite City jail in Louisiana in late December 1879. According to a New Orleans Times account reprinted in The Comet, a mob of about fifty men got the jail keys from the sheriff, took the prisoners about half a mile from town, and hanged four of them. The bodies were found close together and riddled with bullets.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about fifty men took the prisoners from the Amite City jail after getting the keys from the sheriff, and the New Orleans Times, as reprinted in The Comet, reports that they hanged George Carroll.
Reported by: New Orleans Times (as reprinted in The Comet) (reporters).