Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, not named in the account, was held in the jail at Donaldsville, Louisiana, in November 1888. According to a dispatch from Donaldsville printed in The Evening Bulletin, a crowd of about two hundred people overpowered the jailer at night, took him from the jail and hanged him. The dispatch did not say whether the jailer resisted or gave up the keys.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A crowd of about two hundred overpowered the jailer at the Donaldsville, Louisiana jail, took a Black man from the jail and hanged him, according to a Donaldsville dispatch reported by The Evening Bulletin.
Reported by: The Evening Bulletin, citing a Donaldsville, La. dispatch (reporters).