Died in jail or a lockup
One of 6 people whose names were not reported
A Little Rock dispatch printed in The Roanoke Times on August 26, 1897, reported that a mob took six Black people from the jail in Cleburne County, Arkansas, on the night of August 24 and lynched them. The person recorded here was one of those six. The dispatch gave no names for any of them. The mob is said to have taken them from the jail itself, and the account describes the killings as a lynching from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Little Rock dispatch reports that a mob took six people from a Cleburne County, Arkansas jail and lynched them.
Reported by: Little Rock press report (reporters).