Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man who worked at a sawmill was held in the jail at Dumas. According to The Forrest City Times of July 14, 1905, an armed mob broke into the jail, took him out and marched him about half a mile from town, where he was hanged from a telegraph pole. His death was a lynching from custody, and the jail's handling of the mob is not described.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.