Died in jail or a lockup
Howard
Howard, a man held in the custody of a sheriff, was being taken to jail near Vicksburg, Mississippi, in December 1883. According to a Vicksburg dispatch printed in the New Orleans report, a group of Black men took him from the sheriff and killed him. The death is believed to have been a lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Vicksburg dispatch reported that a group of Black men took Howard from a sheriff while he was being taken to jail near Vicksburg and that he was lynched.
Reported by: Vicksburg special dispatch in the New Orleans report (reporters).