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 hanged him. The 1891 newspaper report describes the crowd as organized, and says it dispersed after a committee had finished its work at the prison. The man's name cannot be read in the surviving text.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report