Died in custody
G. H. Thomas
A man who called himself Dr. G. H. Thomas was being held by officers near Oxford, Mississippi, when a crowd took him from them and hanged him. The Brookhaven Leader reported the killing in July 1888. The mob, not any court or official process, is named as the one that ended his life.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.