Died in jail or a lockup
Judge Chisholm
Judge Chisholm was held in the De Kalb jail in De Kalb, Kemper County, Mississippi, in 1876. According to a New York Tribune account reprinted by the Daily Republican in 1879, a mob of about a hundred armed men broke open the jail on a Sunday morning and mortally wounded him. The Tribune described the killing as a murder by Democratic bulldozers.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The New York Tribune, as quoted by the Daily Republican, reports that a mob of about a hundred armed men broke open the De Kalb jail and mortally wounded him.
Reported by: New York Tribune, as quoted by the Daily Republican (reporters).