Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man, not named in the report, was held in the Springfield jail in April 1906 when a mob took him out and hanged him on the public square. The report describes him as the third man taken from the jail and hanged in that way. According to the report, he was killed after two other men had already been hanged that day.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched