Died in jail or a lockup
One of 5 people whose names were not reported
A Black man whose name the sources do not give was held at a jail in Arkansas in early September 1904. According to a dispatch to the Little Rock Gazette, reported by The Montgomery Advertiser, a mob took him from the jail on Sunday, September 4, hanged him from a tree about three miles from Crossett, and then fired many bullets into his body.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch reports a mob took the man from a jail near Crossett, Arkansas, and lynched him about three miles away.
Reported by: special dispatch (news report) (reporters).