Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In August 1917, a mob took a Black man from the jail at Foreman, Arkansas, and hanged him to a telegraph pole, according to an Associated Press report published in The Montgomery Advertiser on August 10, 1917. The man was being held at the jail when the mob removed him. The jail's keeper's conduct during the removal is not described in this account. The death is attributed to the mob, and no official account of the killing is cited.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Associated Press reported that a mob took him from the Foreman, Arkansas jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole.
Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).