Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died 1891 · New Orleans

In 1891, according to a Crittenden Press editorial published in 1900, a mob took eleven prisoners from the jail in New Orleans and put them to death. The editorial names none of them and gives no ages or other details about them. It cited the killings as an example of mob violence that local courts had not prosecuted.

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

Reported by: Crittenden Press editorial, 1900 (reporters).

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