Name not reported
A Black man, whose name is not given in the report, was held in custody in Arkansas when a mob took him from the officers guarding him, according to a Little Rock dispatch printed in the Durango Semi-Weekly Herald on February 22, 1904. The dispatch says the mob took him to a place near Crossett, chained him to a stake and burned him to death on February 19, 1904. The sheriff's office and jail are not named in the account, and it does not say whether the officers resisted or handed him over. The only source for these events is this single newspaper report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Little Rock, Ark. newspaper dispatch reports that a mob took the man from the officers holding him and burned him at the stake near Crossett.
Reported by: Little Rock, Ark. newspaper dispatch (reporters).