Died in jail or a lockup
Robert Motley
Robert Motley, a Black man, was held in the jail at Lambert, Mississippi. According to the Pine Bluff Daily Graphic, an armed mob took him from the jail on the night of Saturday, November 8, 1919, and hanged him. The mob acted after a shooting in a dispute over a crop settlement that mortally wounded planter R. W. Sivley.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.