Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man, whose name the sources do not give, was one of two men lynched near Shreveport, Louisiana, on December 11, 1914, according to an Associated Press dispatch published in The Anderson Daily Intelligencer. The dispatch says he was in the custody of an officer who was taking him and the other man to Mansfield, Louisiana, for safekeeping, when a mob seized them. The mob then killed both men.
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 moving him to Mansfield, Louisiana, for safekeeping, and lynched him.
Reported by: Associated Press dispatch (reporters).