Died in jail or a lockup
Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey, a Black man, was held in the jail at Mcradville, Mississippi, when a mob took him from the jail and hanged him, according to a short item in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union published April 17, 1883. The town name is garbled in the newspaper's text. The account gives no further detail about who Tom Bailey was or how the jail staff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched