Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Monroe, Louisiana, died on July 30, 1878, when a party of masked men took him from the jail early that morning and hanged him. The jail was the place that held him, and the account records that masked men came for him there and killed him. His name does not appear in the account published in The Superior Times on August 17, 1878.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.