Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In January 1909, an eighteen-year-old Black man was being held in the county jail at Hope, Arkansas. While the sheriff was out of town and the jailer was the only officer on duty, a mob overpowered the jailer and took the young man from the jail. The mob hanged him from a telegraph pole in front of the Iron Mountain station. Shots were fired into his body.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took him from the county jail at Hope, Arkansas, overpowering the lone jailer, and hanged him from a telegraph pole.
Reported by: news reports.