Died in jail or a lockup
Jack Betts
Jack Betts, a Black man, was being held in the jail in Corinth, Mississippi, in August 1900. According to a Memphis dispatch published in the San Antonio Daily Light, a mob took him from that jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole on the public square. He was killed in view of the town, in a public lynching.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Memphis dispatch in the San Antonio Daily Light says a mob took Jack Betts from the Corinth, Mississippi jail and hanged him from a telegraph pole on the public square.
Reported by: Memphis, Tenn. dispatch published in the San Antonio Daily Light (reporters).