Mullock Walker
Mullock Walker, a Black man, was held in the jail at Corinth, Mississippi, in August 1898, when a mob forced its way in and took him from his cell. The Weekly Corinthian reported that masked men, estimated at 25 to 100, hanged him from an electric light pole on Filmore street about 1 a.m., and that city authorities cut his body down at daylight. The Commercial Appeal put the mob at about 250 men, and the Macon Beacon said he was hanged from a telegraph pole, while the Weekly Corinthian gave his name as Mug Walker. The Weekly Corinthian reported that no clue to who carried out the lynching had been found.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of about 250 men took Mullock Walker from a jail in Corinth, Mississippi, and hanged him, according to a Commercial Appeal dispatch; another account says a mob of masked men forced their way into the Corinth jail, took Mug Walker from his cell and hanged him from an electric light pole.
Reported by: The Commercial Appeal (reporters); The Weekly Corinthian (reporters).