Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died March 1891 · Parish Jail, New Orleans

In March 1891, a mob took one of eleven men held at the Parish Jail in New Orleans, and killed him by hanging. The crowd was said to have gathered in an organized way and to have dispersed after a committee finished its work at the prison. His name is not legible in the source text.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report