Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a Louisiana parish jail was taken from the jail by a mob in March 1896, according to a New Orleans dispatch printed in The Wichita Daily Eagle. The dispatch reports that the mob hanged him in front of the courthouse. His name cannot be read in the surviving newspaper scan.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A New Orleans dispatch reported that a mob took the man from the parish jail and hanged him in front of the courthouse.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch (Republic, via New Orleans) (reporters).