Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Clarendon, Arkansas jail was taken out by a masked mob and lynched, according to the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, which reported it in June 1887. It also does not say how the mob got in or what the jail's officers did during the attack. The paper's report of the killing is the only source for these details.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched