Died in custody

Henry Young

died August 1905 · Lake Cormorant, Mississippi

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.

Source

The San Francisco Call, August 17, 1905, page 1 The San Francisco Call, August 17, 1905

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