Died in custody
Name not reported
Four Black men held in the charge of officers at Tallulah, Louisiana, were taken from those officers by a mob and hanged from a tree, according to a short dispatch in the Rock Island Argus published April 28, 1894. The four men died while in the custody of the officers who held them. Each of them was a person whose death occurred in that custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper dispatch.