Died in jail or a lockup
Esex Bostick
Esex Bostick was a Black man about 26 years old. On June 3, 1905, he was in the custody of officers near Louisville, Mississippi, who were moving him when about forty armed men came out of a wooded area and demanded him. The Kemper Herald reported that the officers gave him up without resistance, and the men hanged him from a tree. The Brandon News gave the same account, and reported no clues to the identity of the group.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.