Name not reported

A Black postal clerk was being taken toward Quitman, Mississippi, in the custody of officers, according to a brief July 1920 item in The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph. A mob seized him from the officers and killed him by lynching. The item describes these events in a single short paragraph.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob seized the man from officers who were taking him to Quitman, Mississippi, for trial and lynched him, according to a brief 1920 newspaper item.

Reported by: news reports.

Source

• The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph, July 7, 1920, page 2 The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph, July 7, 1920