Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Monroe, Louisiana, was taken from it during the night by a mob and lynched, the second of two men killed that way. The Interior Journal's 1907 account gives no name for either man. According to the paper, Black residents of the town were afterward made to go to the courthouse square and read placards attached to the bodies.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.