Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to an 1898 report from Arkansas published in the Eagle River Review, five Black people, three of them women, were held in a jail when a mob took them from it. The mob hanged all five people. The report describes the killings as a lynching carried out by the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.