Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In March 1891, a mob broke into the Parish Jail in New Orleans, took one of eleven men held there, and hanged him. The man's name is not legible in the surviving record. An 1891 newspaper account says the crowd acted in an organized way and dispersed once the group had finished at the prison.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.