Name not reported

In 1940, according to a count of lynchings that year compiled by the Department of Records and Research and reported in The Omaha Guide, one person was taken from a jail by a mob and killed. The count gives no name, age, sex, or location for this person, and does not identify the jail or the date. Nothing further is known about who held them or whether the jailer or sheriff resisted or handed them over.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Department of Records and Research, as reported by Tuskegee, counted one 1940 lynching of a person taken from a jail by a mob.

Reported by: Department of Records and Research.

Source

• The Omaha Guide, January 4, 1941, page 1 The Omaha Guide, January 4, 1941