Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
On the night of December 28, 1879, a mob of about fifty men took a Black man held in a Louisiana jail out of custody and shot him to death. He was one of four men held at the jail. A wire dispatch carried by the Leavenworth Weekly Times on January 1, 1880, reported the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.