Died in custody
Tennis Hampton
A telegram in the San Antonio Daily Light of May 23, 1891, reported that Tennis Hampton, a Black man, was taken from the sheriff at Beardsley, Louisiana, and probably lynched. The mob that took him was said to have acted against a man held in the sheriff's custody, and the telegram did not say whether the sheriff resisted, gave up the keys, or handed him over. The report is brief and unconfirmed, and the paper gave no further account of the seizure or of his death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A telegram in the San Antonio Daily Light reports that a mob took him from the sheriff at Beardsley, Louisiana, and probably lynched him.
Reported by: San Antonio Daily Light telegram report (reporters).