Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died November 1881 · Dardanelle

A person held in the jail at Dardanelle was taken from the jail by a mob in November 1881 and hanged from a tree, according to a short item in The Osceola Times published in December of that year. The paper described it as the second mob killing in Dardanelle in six months. The person's name is not given in the source.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Osceola Times reported that a mob hanged a prisoner from a tree after taking him from the jail at Dardanelle.

Reported by: The Osceola Times (reporters).

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