Died in jail or a lockup
Mose Jones
Snap Terry, a 26-year-old Black man, was held in the Fairfield County jail in Texas in May 1922. According to a United Press account printed in the Richmond Planet, a mob took him from the jail. He was tied to the seat of a cultivator in the square at Kirvin and burned to death before a crowd of about 100 people.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. United Press reports that a mob took Snap Terry from the Fairfield county jail and burned him to death at Kirvin.
Reported by: United Press (reporters).