Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A brief item in the Owingsville Outlook of April 19, 1906, reported that a mob took one of three Black people from a jail in Springfield, Missouri, and killed them. The person was held at that jail when the mob took them. The date of the killing is not given in the item, and the name of the person was not recorded there.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A brief Kentucky weekly item reports that a mob took a Black man from a jail, hanged him and burned his body.
Reported by: Kentucky weekly newspaper (reporters).