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One of 5 people whose names were not reported

died September 4, 1904 · Arkansas

A Black man whose name the sources do not give was held at a jail in Arkansas in early September 1904. According to a dispatch to the Little Rock Gazette, reported by The Montgomery Advertiser, a mob took him from the jail on Sunday, September 4, hanged him from a tree about three miles from Crossett, and then fired many bullets into his body.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Gazette reported that a mob took the man from a jail in Arkansas, hanged him from a tree about three miles from Crossett and shot his body.

Reported by: The Gazette (reporters).

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