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Died in custody

Name not reported

died March 26, 1904 · Arkansas

A mob took five Black people from the guards holding them in De Witt, Arkansas, and shot them to death on March 26, 1904. A brief wire report carried by the Pierre Weekly Free Press on March 31, 1904, gave this account.

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

Reported by: wire report datelined De Witt, Arkansas (reporters).

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