Name not reported
A Black man held at the jail in Mexico, Missouri, was taken by a mob and hanged from a tree in July 1899. A July 23 report said the mob took him from the Mexico jail and hanged him. A July 26 dispatch in the Twice-A-Week Courier-Journal said deputy sheriffs were moving him toward Fayette when a crowd of men met their wagon near Burton, and that the deputies did not try to defend him and handed him over. A July 29 St. Louis dispatch, printed in the Macon Beacon, placed the seizure at the Fayette jail in Howard County and said officers had not thought a guard necessary despite talk of a possible mob.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched (neglect alleged). A news dispatch says deputies did not try to defend him and handed him over to a mob, which hanged him, and that officers did not think a guard was necessary despite talk of a possible mob.
Reported by: St. Louis newspaper dispatch (reporters).