Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Springfield, Missouri

According to a brief item in the Owingsville Outlook of April 19, 1906, three Black people were held in a jail in Springfield, Missouri. A mob took them from that jail and hanged them. The paper said their bodies were then burned.

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

Reported by: Kentucky weekly newspaper item (reporters).

News report