Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person held in the jail at Vidalia, Louisiana, was taken from the jail by a mob and hanged, according to a short dispatch datelined Natchez, Mississippi, published in the Los Angeles Daily Herald on November 17, 1889. The record dates the death to November 15, 1889. No name is given for the person.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Natchez, Miss. dispatch reports that a mob took a person from the jail at Vidilia, Louisiana and hanged them.
Reported by: Natchez, Miss., dispatch (unattributed) (reporters).