Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

According to a brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal of January 14, 1902, a Black man was being held in a jail when a mob took him from it and hanged him. The killing was reported as a lynching carried out by a mob that seized him from the jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

News report