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 Arkansas report in the Eagle River Review published August 18, 1898. The account is a lynching from custody, meaning the mob took the five from the jail where they were held. The record gives no names, no date of the killings, and no name or location for the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.