Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the Sebastian County jail in Arkansas was taken from the jail on the night of August 3, 1874, by about 200 people, and hanged, according to a Little Rock dispatch. He had been recaptured and returned to the jail after an escape in which a member of a posse was killed. His name is not given in the reports.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Little Rock news dispatch says about 200 people took him from the Sebastian County jail at night and hanged him, and does not say whether jail staff resisted.
Reported by: Little Rock news dispatch (reprinted in the Galveston News and Worcester Daily Spy) (reporters).