Deaths in Custody
Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died April 1906 · Springfield

In April 1906, a mob took a Black man from the Springfield jail, where he was being held, and hanged him on the public square. He was one of three men the mob seized from the jail that month and killed. All three were hanged in the same attack on the jail.

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

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