Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black men held in a New Orleans jail were taken from it by an angry mob and lynched, according to a short telegraph brief published by The Day Book in August 1914. The mob took both men from the jail and killed them. Both men were in the jail's custody at the time the mob took them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A short wire brief reports that an angry mob took two Black men from a New Orleans jail and lynched them.
Reported by: The Day Book telegraph brief (reporters).