Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Five Black people, three of them women, were taken from a jail by a mob and hanged, according to an 1898 report in the Eagle River Review. The mob took them from the jail that was holding them and killed them. The report gives no names, date, or town beyond the Arkansas location of the page. Five people were held at a jail in Arkansas when a mob took them and hanged them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.