Died in jail or a lockup
Paul Julian
Paul Julian was a Black man held in a small jail on Judge Espinolt's property in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, in September 1893. The Osceola Times reported that a mob took him and his brothers from that jail, took him about a mile to a camp, and hanged him from a tree. The Hopkinsville Kentuckian, reporting from Southport, Louisiana, said three Black men were taken from the jail there on a Sunday night and hanged. The two accounts differ on the place and on the date, one giving September 16 and the other September 17.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.