Died in custody
Jim Heard
According to a November 28, 1912 dispatch from Shreveport, Louisiana, published in The San Francisco Call, a mob took Jim Heard from three deputies and lynched him that night. The dispatch says the deputies were the ones holding him when the mob took him, but it does not name the jail or say how the deputies responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Shreveport dispatch (news report, 1912) (reporters).