Name not reported
A Black man identified in the newspaper only as Persons was held for safekeeping at Potts Camp, Mississippi. According to the account, a mob took him from sheriff's deputies at a train near Memphis, Tennessee, and returned him to the Macon road community, where a crowd of several thousand watched him chained to a pyre and burned. A coroner's jury returned a verdict that he died from causes unknown to the jury, and a grand jury investigation of the lynching was reported to be planned.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A coroner's jury returned a verdict that he died from causes unknown to the jury, while a mob took him from sheriff's deputies and burned him at a pyre.
Reported by: coroner's jury (medical examiner or coroner).