Died in jail or a lockup
Jim Hawkins
Jim Hawkins, a Black man, was held in a jail in New Orleans in September 1896. According to a New Orleans dispatch printed in The Topeka State Journal, a masked party took him from the jail and gave him a brief time to pray before hanging him from a tree near the Batture. The dispatch says his body disappeared and was likely thrown into the river.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch datelined New Orleans says a masked party took Jim Hawkins from a jail and hanged him from a tree near the Batture.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch datelined New Orleans (reporters).