Died in jail or a lockup

Crawford

died March 7, 1887 · Mississippi

Crawford, a Black man, was held in a jail in Mississippi on March 7, 1887, when a large crowd took him from the jail and hanged him from a railroad trestle near the town. A Seattle newspaper dispatch published the next day reported the death. The dispatch reports that he died without making any statement.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: news reports.

Source

Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, March 8, 1887, page 1 Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, March 8, 1887

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