Died in jail or a lockup
S. D. Freeman
S. D. Freeman was held in a jail in Louisiana in July 1910 when a mob came for him, according to a Perth Amboy Evening News report datelined July 11, 1910. The report says it took the mob about two hours to get into the jail and that the authorities offered no resistance. Before he was pulled from his cell, Freeman had tried to cut his own throat with a piece of glass to escape the mob. The mob dragged him to a spot nearby and lynched him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1910 report says a mob took S. D. Freeman from a jail, dragged him to a nearby spot and lynched him, and that the authorities offered no resistance.
Reported by: news reports.