Died in custody
William Carr
William Carr was in the custody of a constable who was escorting them to the jail at Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana. According to a brief report in The Citizen in March 1906, a mob took them from the officer and hanged them from a railroad bridge. The report describes the killing as a lynching from custody and gives no further account of how the mob reached them.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.