Died in custody
Mime Collier
Mime Collier, a Black man, was held in the custody of constables in Columbus, Mississippi, in November 1896. According to a telegraphic news report reprinted in the Arizona Weekly Citizen, a mob of more than 100 men took him from the officers and hanged him. A Santa Fe Daily New Mexican item published the next day said the mob took him on the night before, November 17, 1896, and hanged him. Accounts from the time do not say whether the officers resisted or gave up their charge.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Telegraphic news report reprinted in the Arizona Weekly Citizen (reporters).