Jack Washington
Jack Washington was about 50 years old and a member of a prominent family of Washington Parish, Louisiana. He was held at the county jail in Columbia, Mississippi. Early on the morning of October 31, 1915, a party of masked men forced the jailer to hand over the key, bound him to his bed, and took Jack from his cell. The mob hanged him from a tree a short distance outside the city limits.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A party of masked men forced the jailer to hand over the key, bound him to his bed, took Jack Washington from his cell and hanged him from a tree outside Columbia.
Reported by: county jailer (as described in the accounts) (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.