Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Chicago Tribune dispatch published July 2, 1866 reports that about twenty men with blackened or disguised faces took several people out of a jail in Little Rock, Arkansas, at daylight and killed them. The dispatch does not give the names of the dead or how many there were. It is partly garbled in the surviving text. The jail's keepers were not named in the account, and whether they resisted or handed the prisoners over is not stated.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Chicago Tribune dispatch reports that a company of about twenty masked men took several people from a jail at daylight and killed them.
Reported by: Chicago Tribune dispatch (reporters).