Died in jail or a lockup
B. C. Moore
B. C. Moore was held in the Greenwood, Mississippi, jail in October 1877 when masked men came for him. According to a Richmond Dispatch correspondent, the men shot him and took him from the jail, and the jailer was made to hand over the keys before they left. The next morning he was found hanging from a beam of an old cotton shed across the river, about half a mile from town. The correspondent attributes his death to the mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Richmond Dispatch correspondent reports that a masked mob took Moore from the Greenwood jail after the jailer gave up the keys, and that he was found hanging the next morning.
Reported by: Richmond Dispatch correspondent (reporters).