Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A young Black man held in an Arkansas jail was taken from it during the night by a mob and hanged from a telegraph pole near Tillar, according to a July 1906 newspaper account. Passengers on a passing northbound train saw his body swinging from the pole. The account gives no name for him, no date of the killing, and no detail about whether the jailers resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.