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One of 5 people whose names were not reported

died September 4, 1904 · Arkansas

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 press dispatch from Croasett, Arkansas says a mob hanged him from a tree and shot him after taking him from the jail.

Reported by: press dispatch from Croasett, Arkansas (reporters).

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