John Parker
John Parker, a Black man, was being held in a jail in Louisiana in late October 1891, and news dispatches datelined Covington report that a mob took him from the jail. One dispatch says the mob took him from the jail at Abita Springs on the night of October 28 and hanged him from a tree in the jail yard. That dispatch ties his killing to an earlier death at Abita Springs, naming the victim of that earlier killing as John Handy. Other brief items from the same week say he was hanged from a tree by a mob at the Covington jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Jack Parker from the jail at Abita Springs, Louisiana, and hanged him from a tree in the jail yard, according to a news dispatch; the dispatch does not describe any resistance by jail officers.
Reported by: news dispatch datelined Covington, La. (reporters).