Died in jail or a lockup
Lewis Andrews
Lewis Andrews, a Black man, was being held at the jail at Rayville, Louisiana, when a group of men took him from the jail on the evening of February 25, 1912. The men drove him to another location and hanged him from a telephone pole. The summary of the account gives no other details of how the jail's staff responded to the group.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched