Foote
W. L. Foote was held in the Yazoo City jail in Mississippi on the evening of December 29, 1883. According to a correspondent for The Indianapolis Journal, a crowd of about 200 armed men came to the jail around 7 o'clock and got in after the jailer handed over the keys. The correspondent says the crowd shot him dead in his cell. A Yazoo City report reprinted in the Daily Dispatch gives a similar account of the mob at the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Yazoo City correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal says the jailer handed over the keys and a crowd of about 200 entered and shot him in his cell, and a Yazoo City report sent to the Herald likewise says a crowd of armed men came to the jail and shot him dead in his cell.
Reported by: Yazoo City special to the Herald, reprinted in the Daily Dispatch (reporters); Yazoo City correspondent of The Indianapolis Journal (reporters).