Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unidentified Black man was taken from the jail at Merrouge, Louisiana, by a mob in the early hours of December 5, 1907, according to a short telegraphed report in the New-York Tribune. The mob hanged him and left his body strung from a telephone pole. The report gives no account of how the mob got into the jail, or whether jail staff resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.