Died in jail or a lockup
Morris Christopher
Morris Christopher, a Black man, was held in the jail at Hope, Arkansas. A mob tried to take him from the jail on Monday night, February 27, 1899. According to an Arkansas Gazette dispatch reprinted in The Age-Herald, a mob took him from the jail on Tuesday night, February 28, and killed him. A Little Rock dispatch to the Arkansas Gazette, as printed in The Bourbon News, instead says he was taken from the jail and punished.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Arkansas Gazette dispatch, as reprinted in The Age-Herald (reporters).