Died in custody

Name not reported

died April 28, 1894 · Madison Parish, Louisiana

According to a short 1894 newspaper dispatch, four Black men who were in the charge of officers at Tallulah, Louisiana, were taken from the officers by a mob and hanged from a tree. The dispatch gives no names or ages for the men.

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

Reported by: news reports.

Source

Rock Island Argus, April 28, 1894, page 2 Rock Island Argus, April 28, 1894

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