Died in custody
Judge Moseley
Judge Moseley, a Black man, was in the custody of a deputy sheriff near Lockhart, Mississippi. On the morning of November 7, 1911, a mob of about 400 people took him from the deputy and lynched him. According to The Birmingham Age-Herald, his body was riddled with bullets. A brief dispatch in The Waxahachie Daily Light also reported that he was lynched by a mob of about 400 people near Lockhart.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.