Died in custody
Name not reported
Five Black people were held by guards in De Witt, Arkansas, when a crowd took them from the guards and shot them to death, according to a wire report carried by the Pierre Weekly Free Press on March 31, 1904. The report places the killings on March 26, 1904. The event is recorded as a mob killing of five people who had been in the guards' custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report datelined De Witt, Arkansas (reporters).