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Died in custody

Name not reported

died April 28, 1894 · Madison Parish, Louisiana

Four Black men who were being held by officers at Tallulah, Louisiana, were taken from those officers by a mob in April 1894, according to a short Rock Island Argus dispatch. The dispatch said the mob hanged the four men from a tree. The men are named here by their race and number only, as the dispatch described them.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: newspaper dispatch.

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