Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man was one of two men killed by a mob near Shreveport, Louisiana, on December 11, 1914, according to an Associated Press dispatch published the next day in the Anderson Daily Intelligencer. The dispatch says an officer was taking the two men to Mansfield, Louisiana, for safekeeping when a mob seized them from his custody and killed them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. An Associated Press dispatch reports that a mob took the man from an officer who was trying to move him to Mansfield, Louisiana, for safekeeping, and lynched him.
Reported by: Associated Press dispatch (reporters).