Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was one of three Black men held in the custody of officers in an Arkansas town. According to a special dispatch to the Gazette dated June 5, 1882, and reprinted in the Keowee Courier, a mob took the three men from the officers who held them on Sunday night, June 4. The dispatch says the mob hanged all three from a tree.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A special dispatch to the Gazette says a mob took three men from the officers holding them and hanged all three from a tree.
Reported by: special dispatch to the Gazette (reporters).