Name not reported
According to The Colfax Chronicle, this Black person was one of three people held in the Benton jail in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, who were taken from two deputies on a train between Bodcau and Haughton by a mob. The mob hanged all three from one tree. The article ties the three to an incident in which a deputy sheriff was injured at the jail. The newspaper's account of the people's own conduct is not repeated here, and the account of the deputies' response is limited to the fact that the mob took them from the deputies.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Colfax Chronicle reports that a mob took three people from two deputies on a train and hanged them from one tree.
Reported by: The Colfax Chronicle (reporters).