Died in jail or a lockup

Name not reported

died January 1876 · Friar's Point, Mississippi

A man held in the jail at Friar's Point, Mississippi, was among four men whom a mob took from the jail and shot, according to a brief item in The Jackson Standard published January 27, 1876. The killings took place in January 1876, in the week before that report. The mob took him from the jail and shot him, and the account is the only source for his death.

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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