Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
An unnamed Black man was taken from the jail at Clarksville, Arkansas, and hanged on November 6, 1878, according to The Worthington Advance, which reported the killing eight days later. The paper gives no name for him. It describes the hanging as a lynching, and it did not say how the mob got past the jail or whether the jailer resisted or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.