Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two people held in a New Orleans jail were taken from it by a mob and lynched on March 3, 1896. Their names, ages and sex were not recorded. It is also unrecorded how the mob reached them and whether jail officers resisted or handed them over. The victims were Black, and this was a lynching from custody in which the jail failed to protect them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.