Died in custody
Henry Young
Henry Young, a Black man, was in the custody of Sheriff Withers and a deputy near Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, in August 1905. At night, an armed mob took him from the officers and hanged him on a local plantation. The lynching was reported in the San Francisco Call on August 17, 1905.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Sheriff Withers and a deputy, who were holding him when the mob took him (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.