Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at New Madrid, Missouri, was taken out of the jail on December 1, 1898, by a crowd of friends of a man who had been killed. The crowd stormed the jail, and the man was lynched near the scene of that earlier killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.