Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Madisonville, Louisiana, was taken from the jail by a mob of masked men and shot, according to a brief item in the Turner County Herald published in January 1885. The item gives no name for him, and the name in the scanned text is garbled. It does not say whether the jailer or sheriff resisted the mob, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.