Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was held in the jail at Warren, Arkansas. According to a reprinted account in The Anderson Intelligencer of May 19, 1892, a mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree. He was killed in the hours after the jail held him, and the account describes no other event in the jail that night.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The reprinted New York Herald account says a mob took him from the Warren, Arkansas jail and hanged him to a tree.
Reported by: New York Herald (reprinted account) (reporters).