Died in jail or a lockup
Tom O’Neill
Tom O'Neill, a Black man, was held in the jail in Meridian, Mississippi, in April 1910. Accounts say officers shot him in the jail basement during a fight. Accounts say a crowd of nearly 2,000 people then took him from the officers and hanged him from a telephone pole on April 15, 1910. The sources differ on the order of events: one says he died after the mob took him, and one says his body was later mutilated and burned.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched