Died in jail or a lockup
Wash Allen
Wash Allen, a Black man, was held in the jail in Shreveport, Louisiana, in July 1881. A special dispatch from Shreveport, printed in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union on July 21, 1881, reported that a party of armed, masked men took Wash from the jail and hanged him. The dispatch gives this account as a Republican report, reprinted from a St. Louis paper.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Republican special dispatch from Shreveport, Louisiana, reprinted by a St. Louis paper, says a party of armed, masked men took Wash Allen from a jail and hanged him.
Reported by: Republican special dispatch from Shreveport, as reprinted by the St. Louis paper (reporters).