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 from the jail in New Orleans and killed them. The editorial gives no names for those killed. It cited the killings as an example of mob violence that local courts had been unable to prosecute.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A 1900 Crittenden Press editorial says a mob took eleven prisoners from the New Orleans jail in 1891 and put them to death.
Reported by: Crittenden Press editorial (reporters).