Died in jail or a lockup
James M. Webb
James M. Webb was held in the jail at Kosciusko, Mississippi, and died there in custody on June 23, 1887. Newspaper accounts say a group of armed men overpowered the jailer, took Webb from his cell and hanged him. The papers differ on the details: one says about forty masked men went to a secluded spot, while another says about fifty unmasked men rode him on horseback to a railroad trestle about a mile from town and hanged him with a plow line.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: historical newspaper accounts of the Kosciusko, Mississippi jail seizure (reporters).