Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the city jail at Monroe, Louisiana, in October 1913 was taken by a mob. A news report in The Prescott Daily News said about 25 men broke into the jail and took him, and that two of them held up the two police officers in charge at gunpoint and forced them to hand him over. The mob hanged him from a telephone pole.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: historical newspaper account (OCR text) (reporters).