Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died January 1876 · Friar's Point, Mississippi

A man who had been held in the jail at Friar's Point, Mississippi, was among four men a mob took from the jail and shot, according to a brief item in The Jackson Standard published on January 27, 1876, about the previous week's events. The item gives the date as January 1876 and places the killing at the jail, where the men had been held.

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

Reported by: news reports.

Source

The Jackson Standard, January 27, 1876, page 2 The Jackson Standard, January 27, 1876

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