Bob Bryant
Bob Bryant, who was Black, was in the custody of deputy sheriffs being taken to town in Mississippi when a mob of about 200 armed farmers stopped the officers and demanded the men they held. The deputies were forced to surrender the prisoners, and Bryant was hanged from the Yazoo bridge at Hayne's Bluff near Vicksburg before daylight on May 3, 1903. According to the newspaper report, the deputy sheriff pleaded that the law be allowed to act, but the officers gave way to the crowd. The hanging is recorded as a homicide by a mob that took him from the officers who held him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 200 armed farmers stopped the deputies taking Bryant to town, forced them to surrender him, and hanged him from the Yazoo bridge at Hayne's Bluff near Vicksburg.
Reported by: deputy sheriffs. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.