Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Oxford, Mississippi, was taken from it by a mob and hanged from a telegraph pole, according to a brief wire report in The Brunswick News published September 11, 1908. The account gives his death as September 10, 1908, and describes him as having been arrested by a posse of deputies before he was placed in the jail. The report names no one else involved and does not identify the man himself.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: wire report.