Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In 1891, according to an 1900 editorial in the Crittenden Press, a mob took eleven people held in the jail at New Orleans and killed them. The editorial cited the killings as an example of mob violence that local courts could not prosecute. Those killed were held in the jail when the mob took them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Crittenden Press editorial (reporters).