Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black men held in the Nowata, Oklahoma, jail were taken from the jail by a mob and lynched in front of the courthouse, according to a 1916 Hopkinsville Kentuckian report. The paper says the same evening another mob tried to lynch a man held at that jail. The men are not named in the account, and the date of their deaths is not given beyond the paper's early October 1916 publication.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.