Died in jail or a lockup
One of 5 people whose names were not reported
A Black man whose name the sources do not give was held at a jail in Arkansas in early September 1904. According to a dispatch to the Little Rock Gazette, reported by The Montgomery Advertiser, a mob took him from the jail on Sunday, September 4, hanged him from a tree about three miles from Crossett, and then fired many bullets into his body.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took a man from the jail in Crossett, Arkansas, hanged him from a tree and shot him, according to a Little Rock Gazette dispatch carried by the Associated Press.
Reported by: Little Rock Gazette, special dispatch from Crossett, via the Associated Press (reporters).