Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
In March 1896, according to a New Orleans dispatch printed in the Wichita Daily Eagle, a mob took one of two men from a parish jail in Louisiana and hanged him in front of a courthouse. The jail held him when the mob came for him. The name of the man and other personal details are not legible in the scan of the page. The dispatch calls the killing a lynching by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch from New Orleans says a mob took one of two men from a parish jail and hanged him in front of the courthouse.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch (Republic, via New Orleans) (reporters).