Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the Biloxi jail in Mississippi was taken from the jail by several white men on November 10, 1908, and hanged to a tree about half a mile from town, according to an Associated Press report in The Pensacola Journal. The report names the mob as white men and describes the man as Black, but it gives no name or age for him. It does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed him over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Associated Press report (reporters).