Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Whitecastle, Louisiana, was taken from custody by a mob and hanged, according to a brief item in the Hopkinsville Kentuckian published January 19, 1897. It also does not describe how the mob reached the jail or how the jail's officers responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.