Ready Murdoch
Ready Murdoch was held in the Durant jail in Mississippi, where a deputy sheriff from another town had placed him to protect him from a mob. Early on June 3, 1894, a mob surrounded the jail and took him toward the place where the events that prompted the mob had occurred. The Edgefield Advertiser's opinion was that he was hanged on the road between Durant and Yazoo City. A short item in The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, published June 8, 1894, reported that he was taken from the Durant jail and lynched.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob took Ready Murdoch from the Durant jail, where he had been placed for protection, and hanged him, according to an unnamed newspaper opinion; the report does not describe a body being found.
Reported by: unnamed opinion reported by the newspaper.