Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail in Monroe, Louisiana was taken from the jail by a mob of white men and hanged from a telephone pole, according to a short East Oregonian report published in October 1913. The report gives the date as October 1913 and the death as a lynching carried out by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.