George Beckett
George Beckett was held in the jail in Monroe County, Mississippi, in June 1882, when, according to a newspaper dispatch from Jackson, a crowd overpowered the jailer that night. The dispatch says the crowd broke into his cell, dragged him out and hanged him from a tree limb. Beckett had earlier been pursued by armed citizens near the Tombigbee river and wounded after he refused to surrender. The account is secondhand, reprinted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in the Memphis Daily Appeal, and has not been independently verified.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A St. Louis Post-Dispatch dispatch from Jackson, Mississippi, reports that a crowd overpowered the jailer, broke into his cell, dragged him out and hanged him from a tree limb.
Reported by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch dispatch from Jackson, Miss. (reprinted in the Memphis Daily Appeal) (reporters).