Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a brief telegram printed by The Portland Daily Press in December 1878, a mob took a Black man from the jail at Franklin, Louisiana, and killed him. The account says his throat was cut and his body was thrown into Bayou Teche. The telegram does not give his name or the exact date, and it does not say how the mob got in or whether the jailers resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.