Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died October 20, 1913 · Louisiana

A Black man held in a Louisiana jail on October 20, 1913, was taken out by about twenty-five masked men and lynched, according to a short dispatch in The Sun published October 23, 1913. The dispatch gives no name for him. It does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed over the keys.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Source

The Sun, October 23, 1913, page 5 The Sun, October 23, 1913

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