Died in jail or a lockup
Ready Murdock
Ready Murdock was held at the Durant Jail, according to a short item in The Pascagoula Democrat-Star dated June 8, 1894. That item reports that a mob took him from the jail and lynched him. The paper gives no date for the killing and no description of the mob, and it does not say how the jail's staff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched