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Died in custody

Name not reported

died July 22, 1903 · Jefferson County, Arkansas

According to an Associated Press dispatch printed in the Guthrie Daily Leader on July 22, 1903, a Black person named Green was taken from officers at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and lynched. Green had been held by those officers when a mob took them and killed them. The name is garbled in the scanned text, and Green is the only name the account gives.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Associated Press reported that a mob took Green from officers at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and lynched him.

Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).

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