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Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

Marianna jail, Lee County, Arkansas

A person held in the jail at Marianna, Arkansas, was taken from it by a mob and shot to death, according to a short item in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union published May 28, 1883. The item gives no name for the person, and it does not say when the death happened. The jail's staff is not described as having resisted the mob or handed the person over.

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

Reported by: Sacramento Daily Record-Union (reporters).

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