Ovide Godoau
Ovide Godoau, also spelled Godeau in a second account, was held at a jail in West Mollville, Louisiana. According to a Times-Democrat dispatch, a mob took him from the jail on the Sunday before the report, and his body was found hanging from a bridge about a mile east of town on Monday morning. The Shenandoah Herald reports that a mob took him from a jail at West Melville and hanged him, without giving a date. Neither account says whether jail staff or the sheriff resisted the mob or handed over the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Times-Democrat dispatch from West Mollville, Louisiana, reports that Ovide Godoau was taken from the jail and found hanged from a bridge, and that lynchers put him out of the way.
Reported by: Times-Democrat special dispatch from West Mollville, La. (reporters).