Died in jail or a lockup
Ila Singleton
Ila Singleton was held in the Poplarville jail in Poplarville, Mississippi. A mob took Ila Singleton from the jail and hanged Ila Singleton, according to a wire report printed in The Celina Democrat on April 26, 1918. The death was a lynching by a mob that seized Ila Singleton from the jail's custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A wire item in the newspaper says a mob took Ila Singleton from the Poplarville jail and hanged them, with no detail on how the mob got in or what officers did.
Reported by: wire item in the newspaper.