Died in jail or a lockup
Albert Lewis
Albert Lewis, a Black man about twenty years old, was held in a jail at Mississippi City, Mississippi, according to a New Orleans news dispatch printed in the El Paso Daily Herald in December 1900. The dispatch says an orderly mob took him from the jail and hanged him from a tree near the L. N. depot in Gulfport. Whether jail staff resisted the mob or handed over the keys is not stated.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: New Orleans news dispatch in the El Paso Daily Herald (reporters).