Died in jail or a lockup
Jake Doss
Jake Doss, a Black man, was held in the jail at Artesia, Mississippi, when a mob took him from the jail and hanged him, according to a brief in the Peninsula Enterprise published March 28, 1885. The brief does not give the date of the killing. It does not say how the mob reached him, or whether the jailers resisted, gave up the keys, or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched