Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two or more Black men were taken from the jail at Pierce City, Missouri, and hanged, according to a one-line telegraph report published in the San Antonio Daily Light on August 20, 1901. The men were held at the jail when a mob took them out and killed them. Their own names and the date of the killing are not given in the account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.