Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died March 3, 1896 · Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Two people held in a jail in New Orleans were taken from it and lynched, according to a one-line wire item in the Weekly Union's Tuesday news of March 4, 1896. The jail held them, and a mob took them from it and killed them. Their deaths are dated March 3, 1896, the day before the report appeared.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

Weekly Union, March 4, 1896, page 1 Weekly Union, March 4, 1896

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