Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A person held in the county jail at Lake Village, Arkansas, was taken from the jail by a mounted mob and hanged behind the probate judge's house, according to a Weekly Courier-Journal account published in January 1872. The paper does not give the person's name, age or sex. The account says the town was under the group's control for about a week afterward.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Weekly Courier-Journal (reporters).