Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died March 1891 · Parish Jail, New Orleans

A mob took one of eleven men held at the Parish Jail in New Orleans and hanged him in March 1891, according to a Fisherman & Farmer account published on March 20 of that year. The account calls the men Italians and describes the crowd as organized, dispersing once a committee had finished at the prison. The person's name is not legible in the surviving text.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report