Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unnamed Black man held in the jail at Coushatta, Louisiana, was reportedly taken from the jail by a mob and killed in September 1874, according to a dispatch received at Shreveport and relayed by the Eureka Daily Sentinel. The dispatch does not give his name and does not say whether the jailer resisted the mob or handed him over. The killing is reported through this single dispatch, which the newspaper printed without confirmation.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A report received at Shreveport says a mob took the man from the Coushatta jail and killed him, but the article does not confirm it and gives no name.
Reported by: unnamed report received at Shreveport, as relayed by the newspaper (reporters).