Name not reported
This person, whose name and age are not given in the report, was one of nine Black people being taken by Sheriff Riddick and his posse from Cat Island to the Marianna jail in Lee County, Arkansas. The Telegraph-Courier reported that an armed band of white men took the group from the officers after a struggle and hanged them from a sycamore tree. The sheriff's handling of the group, and whether he resisted the mob, is not described in the account. The paper linked the events to a cotton-picking strike in the county, a framing that comes from the paper's own account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Sheriff Riddick's posse (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.