Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black men were held in the jail at DeWitt, Arkansas, in September 1877. A mob of about nineteen people got past the heavily guarded jail by claiming to have a keg of powder with a fuse, and the guards fled without firing. The mob took the two men from the jail and killed them nearby a few nights before the account was published.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.