Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died August 1892 · Simpson County, Mississippi

A Black man held in the jail in Simpson County, Mississippi, was taken from it by a mob and hanged in August 1892, according to a dispatch from Jackson printed in the New-York Tribune on August 13. The scanned text is garbled, and his name cannot be read. The dispatch does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed over the keys.

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

Reported by: New-York Tribune dispatch from Jackson, August 1892 (reporters).

Source

New-York Tribune, August 13, 1892, page 1 New-York Tribune, August 13, 1892

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