Died in jail or a lockupUnder 18

Name not reported

10 years old · Mississippi

An unidentified Black child, reported as 10 years old, was taken from a Mississippi jail by a group of people shortly before daylight and hanged, according to a brief wire report published in The Star on July 18, 1894. The jail's name is garbled in the scanned text, so the facility cannot be identified from the report.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Reported by: wire report.

Source

The Star, July 18, 1894, page 2 The Star, July 18, 1894

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