John L. Adams
John L. Adams was held in the Vicksburg jail in Mississippi when a mob took him from the building on the night of July 6, 1892, and hanged him in the courthouse yard along with Smith Tooley. According to one account, the Warren Light Artillery declined to defend the jail, and the crowd met no resistance. A relative of the man the mob cited pleaded with the crowd, but the appeal was ignored. Estimates of the size of the mob ranged from about 100 men to 700.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took John L. Adams from the Vicksburg jail and hanged him in the courthouse yard; the Warren Light Artillery declined to defend the jail.
Reported by: Times-Democrat special dispatch from Vicksburg (reporters); Mississippi Leader reprinting a Vicksburg paper (reporters).