Died in jail or a lockup
One of 2 people whose names were not reported
A report in the St. Tammany Farmer published January 28, 1893, says that on Friday night, January 27, 1893, a mob took two Black people from the jail in St. James Parish, Louisiana, and lynched them. The paper does not give their names or ages. The account gives no detail on how the mob got into the jail, and it does not describe what the jail officers did at the time.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.