Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black person was held in the jail at Sardis, Mississippi, in June 1899. According to The Hickman Courier, a mob of about 500 people, which the paper described as entirely Black, took them out of the jail sometime between midnight and dawn and killed them. The paper said the mob acted quietly and that white residents did not learn of the killing until hours later.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.