Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died April 19, 1920 · Crawford County, Kansas

A Black man held at the Mulberry, Kansas, jail was taken from officers in April 1920 by a crowd the Carlisle Independent estimated at 1,000 people. According to the paper, the crowd surrounded the jail, took him out and hanged him. His name is not given in the account.

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

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