Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died November 1893 · Vomer, Arkansas

A Black man held in the jail at Vomer, Arkansas, was taken from the jail by a mob in November 1893. The Hopkinsville Kentuckian reported that the mob hanged, shot and burned him, and that his body was consumed. The paper gave the night of November 18 as the time of the killing.

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

Reported by: Hopkinsville Kentuckian (reporters).

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