Died in jail or a lockup
James Webb
James Webb was held in the jail at Kosciusko, Mississippi, in June 1887. Reports say a group of about forty to fifty armed men overpowered the jailer, broke into the jail and took Webb from his cell. The men carried him on horseback to a railroad trestle about a mile from town. There they hanged him with a plow line tied to the rail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of masked men overpowered the jailer, took Webb from the Kosciusko jail and hanged him from a railroad trestle.
Reported by: news reports.