Died in jail or a lockup
Maggie Howze
Maggie Howze was 20 years old, the older sister of Alma Howze, and had been planning to marry Major Clark. She was held at the Shubuta jail in Mississippi, awaiting trial, when a mob took her and three others from the jail and lynched them on a bridge over the Chickasawha River on December 20, 1918, according to an account in The Crisis. That account says she protested her innocence and fought before the mob threw her from the bridge.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Crisis reports that a mob took Maggie Howze from the Shubuta jail and lynched her on a bridge over the Chickasawha River.
Reported by: The Crisis (reporters).