Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Guthrie, Oklahoma, was taken from the jail by a mob and killed in a lynching, according to a short item in the Water Valley Progress published January 30, 1904. The item gives no name for him, no exact date, and no account of whether jail officers resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over. Because the account is so brief, the circumstances of his death and the response of those responsible for him remain unclear from this source.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.