Died in custody
Name not reported
In 1895 a mob of about 400 men stopped a Cotton Belt passenger train at Danceville, Louisiana, and took a Black man from the custody of a parish sheriff. According to the Osceola Times, the mob then went into the woods with him. The paper said there was little doubt he was lynched.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.