Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In October 1916, the Hopkinsville Kentuckian reported that two Black men were being held in the jail at Nowata, Oklahoma. A mob took them from the jail and lynched them in front of the courthouse on the same evening that another mob tried to lynch a third man held there.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.