Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Batesville, Arkansas, was taken from the jail by a crowd of more than three hundred men on the night of Tuesday, September 18, 1877, according to the Sharp County Record. The crowd broke open the jail, marched him through town and hanged him. His name is garbled in the surviving text and cannot be recovered from this account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of more than three hundred men broke into the Batesville jail, took a man from custody and hanged him, according to the Sharp County Record.
Reported by: Sharp County Record (reporters).