Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a New Orleans Times report reprinted in The Comet, about fifty men took the keys to the Amite City jail in Louisiana from the sheriff, who handed them over. The mob then took six Black men who were being held at the jail, including one whose name is not given, about half a mile from town in late December 1879. Four of the six were hanged, and the bodies were said to have been found close together and riddled with bullets. The account is the newspaper's, and no official account is quoted.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: New Orleans Times, as reprinted in The Comet (reporters).