Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

A Black woman held at a jail was taken from it by a masked, armed group and hanged from a tree. Her name is illegible in the surviving printed report. The same group had earlier taken another woman from the same jail and hanged her from the same tree.

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

Reported by: news reports.

News report