Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

L X Disharnon

died January 6, 1892 · Louisiana

According to a brief item in the Weekly Courier-Journal of January 11, 1892, L X Disharnon was one of two men a mob took from a jail in Louisiana and lynched on January 6, 1892. The item does not say how the mob got in, or whether jail officers resisted or handed the men over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: Weekly Courier-Journal (reporters).

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