Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Three Black men held in the Tunica jail in Tunica, Mississippi, were taken from it by a mob in October 1907 and killed, according to a dispatch printed in The Butler Weekly Times. Two were found hanging from a telegraph pole in front of the depot. The third was found in nearby woods, full of buckshot, after being shot while trying to escape, the newspaper reported. The men had been held in connection with a burglary in Robinsonville, and their names were not recorded in the report.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: newspaper report (dispatch from Tunica, Miss.) (reporters).