Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Arkansas

A Black man was held at a jail near Tillar, Arkansas, and during the night a mob took him from the jail, according to the Times-Promoter's report of July 13, 1906. The mob hanged him from a telegraph pole beside the railroad track. Passengers on a northbound Valley train said they saw the body after shots were fired.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report