Died in custody
Lee Newton
Lee Newton, a Black man, was in the custody of officers escorting him to the jail at Magnolia, Columbia County, Arkansas, in July 1902. According to the Virginia Gazette, a mob of about twenty-five men attacked the officers, took him, and hanged him from a tree. A separate Oxford Eagle item in August reported that a Black man was taken from officers in Columbia County and lynched. Newton's death was a lynching by a mob that took him from the officers holding him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about twenty-five men attacked the officers escorting him to the Magnolia jail, took him and hanged him from a tree.
Reported by: Oxford Eagle (reporters).