Died in jail or a lockup
Oval Poulard
Oval Poulard, a Black man, was held in the jail at Ville Platte in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana. According to a brief wire dispatch published in the Norwich Bulletin on January 21, 1911, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a nearby tree on January 20, 1911.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief wire dispatch reports that a mob took him from the Ville Platte jail in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, and hanged him from a nearby tree.
Reported by: news reports.