Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died March 1891 · Parish Jail, New Orleans

One of eleven men held at the Parish Jail in New Orleans was taken by a mob in March 1891 and killed by hanging. The man's name is not legible in the surviving account. A crowd took the men from the jail, and the account says it dispersed once a committee had finished at the prison.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report