Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A mob took a Black man from the jail at Foreman, Arkansas, and hanged him on or about August 8, 1917, according to a dispatch datelined Ashdown in the Brownsville Herald. The dispatch says he had been held in the jail after a constable arrested him. His name is garbled in the scanned text, so it is not recorded here. The jail staff's response to the mob is not described in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.