Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to The Colfax Chronicle, three Black people who had been held at the Benton jail in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, were taken by a mob from two deputies on a train between Bodcau and Haughton. The mob hanged all three from a single tree. The report was printed in the paper's issue of December 7, 1912.
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).