Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Madison Parish, Louisiana

Five people of Italian origin were held in the jail at Tallulah, Louisiana, when a mob took them out and hanged them. The killings were reported in a national address on lynchings of Italian people, which presented them as the latest in a series of such events and called for federal action. The source gives no names or other personal details about the five people.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: national address on lynchings of Italian subjects.

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