Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man whose name is garbled in the surviving newspaper text was held in the custody of the sheriff at McGhee, Arkansas, in September 1894. According to The Morning News, the sheriff gave the men up, and a mob took this man from the sheriff and hanged him to a tree on September 21, 1894. The paper described the killing as a lynching, and no trial or other legal process is reported before it.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.