Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Chicot County jail in Arkansas was taken out by a crowd and hanged, according to an item from the Cincinnati Gazette that the Republican Herald reprinted in August 1846. The account describes a mob seizing him from the jail and killing him there in the county. Few other details of his life or death are given in the report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Cincinnati Gazette, as reprinted in the Republican Herald, reports that a crowd took a man from the Chicot County, Arkansas jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Cincinnati Gazette (as reprinted in the Republican Herald) (reporters).