Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in a Louisiana jail was taken from the jail at night on December 28, 1879, by a mob of about fifty men and shot to death. He was the fourth of four men held there. His name is not recorded in the report, which is a short wire dispatch from the Leavenworth Weekly Times published on January 1, 1880.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.