Died in jail or a lockup
Dick Cooper
Dick Cooper, a Black man, was held at the Brookhaven jail in Brookhaven, Mississippi. According to the Smyrna Times, which reported it on August 26, 1874, a mob it estimated at one thousand citizens took him and two other men from the jail on Saturday night, August 22, and hanged them. The paper's account gives no detail on how the mob entered the jail or what the jail's officers did in response.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Smyrna Times reported that a mob of about one thousand took Dick Cooper from the Brookhaven jail and hanged him on August 22, 1874.
Reported by: Smyrna Times (reporters).