Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

jail at Rayville, La., Richland Parish, Louisiana

A brief item in the Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, published January 12, 1892, reported that two men were taken from the jail at Rayville, Louisiana, and lynched by a mob. Both men were held in the Rayville jail when the mob took them out and killed them.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report